Blue Sky

A coterie magazine. It was published between January 1925 (Taisho 14) and June 1927 (Showa 2), with a total of 28 issues. The coterie magazine's founding members were Kajii Motojiro, Tonomura Shigeru (later Shigeru), Nakatani Takao, Kutsuna Yoshinosuke, Kobayashi Kaoru, and Inamori Sotaro. Inamori, a poet who went on to Waseda University, left after only the first issue. The rest were people who went on to Tokyo Imperial University from the former Third High School, and the opening story of the first issue was Kajii's "Lemon." Later, Yodono Ryuzo, Iijima Tadashi, Miyoshi Tatsuji, Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and others also joined. Short stories such as "In a Town with a Castle," "K's Ascension," and "Winter Days" by Kajii, as well as poems such as "The Baby Carriage" and "On the Paving Stone" by Miyoshi, were also published here. Along with "The Donkey" by Shigeharu Nakano and Tatsuo Hori, and "Mainstream" by Kazuo Ozaki, it played a role in forming the source of Showa literature.

[Toshiro Akano]

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同人雑誌。1925年（大正14）1月～1927年（昭和2）6月、全28冊を数える。創刊時の同人は、梶井(かじい)基次郎、外村(とのむら)茂（のち繁）、中谷孝雄、忽那(くつな)吉之助、小林馨(かおる)、稲森宗太郎。早稲田(わせだ)大学に進んだ歌人稲森は1号のみで去る。他は旧制第三高等学校より東京帝国大学に進んだ人々で、創刊号巻頭の小説が梶井の『檸檬(れもん)』である。のち淀野隆三(よどのりゅうぞう)、飯島正、三好達治、北川冬彦らも参加した。梶井の『城のある町にて』『Kの昇天』『冬の日』などの短編や、三好の代表的な『乳母車』『甃(いし)の上』などの詩もここに掲載された。中野重治(しげはる)、堀辰雄(たつお)らの『驢馬(ろば)』、尾崎一雄(かずお)らの『主潮』などとともに昭和文学の源流を形成する役割を果たす。

［紅野敏郎］

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