Cogito - Kogito

A literary magazine for coterie writers. First published in March 1932 (Showa 7). It ceased publication in September 1944. It has 146 issues. The editor and publisher was Hige Tsuneo, and its coterie writers included Yasuda Yojuro, Tanaka Katsumi, Nakajima Eijiro, Ito Shizuo, Ito Sakio, and Kurahara Shinjiro. The magazine's name comes from Descartes' "cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am). It was one of the first coterie magazines to be founded in the midst of the Romantic mood following the Manchurian Incident, and was heavily influenced by German Romantics, especially Schlegel and Holderlin, and advocated the elevation of the poetic spirit and glorified Japanese classics. It featured essays such as "One of the Crowned Poets" and "Private Notes on the Izumi Shikibu Family Collection" by Yasuda, as well as poems such as "A Lament for Myself" by Ito, and an advertisement for the "Japanese Romantic School" written by Yasuda that appeared in the magazine caused a great stir.

[Norio Okubo]

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文芸同人雑誌。1932年（昭和7）3月創刊。44年9月廃刊。通巻146号。編集兼発行人は肥下恒夫(ひげつねお)で、同人に保田与重郎(やすだよじゅうろう)、田中克己(かつみ)、中島栄次郎、伊東静雄、伊藤佐喜雄(さきお)、蔵原(くらはら)伸二郎らがいた。誌名は、デカルトの「cogito(コギト), ergo(エルゴ) sum(スム)」（われ思う、故(ゆえ)にわれ在(あ)り）に由来する。満州事変後のロマン主義的気運のなかで、いち早く創刊された高踏的な同人雑誌で、ドイツ・ロマン派とくにシュレーゲル、ヘルダーリンの影響が強く、詩精神の高揚をうたい、日本の古典を顕彰した。保田の「戴冠(たいかん)詩人の御一人者」「和泉(いずみ)式部家集私鈔(ししょう)」などのエッセイ、伊東の「わがひとに与ふる哀歌」その他の詩が掲載され、また、同誌に載った保田執筆の『「日本浪曼(ろうまん)派」広告』は大きな反響をよんだ。

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