is a Japanese monthly literary magazine published by

Bungeishunjū is a Japanese publishing company known for its leading monthly magazine '' Bungeishunjū''. The company was founded by Kan Kikuchi in 1923. It grants the annual Akutagawa Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Japan, as well a ...

as a oriented publication.

History and profile

The first version of ''Bungakukai'' was published from 1893 to 1898. The founders were the first generation romantic authors in the country. The magazine featured articles on

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modernism Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

and

idealism Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical realism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysics, metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, Spirit (vital essence), spirit, or ...

. The magazine's second version started in October 1933. Bungeishunjū has owned the magazine since then. The headquarters of ''Bungakukai'' is in Tokyo. Along with '' Shinchō'', ''

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'', '' Bungei'' and ', it is one of the five leading literary journals in Japan. It runs a

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for newcomer writers ''Bungakukai Shinjinshō'' (, Newcomer Award of Literary World).

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