Boys' World

Japanese: 少年世界 - しょうねんせかい

A magazine aimed at young readers. First published in January 1895, ceased publication in October 1933. Published by Hakubunkan. Taking advantage of the times after the First Sino-Japanese War, this bi-monthly magazine was launched by integrating several magazines and series that Hakubunkan had been publishing up until that point. At the time, Iwaya Sazanami, who was attracting attention as a new talent at Kenyusha and had written Koganemaru, said to be the beginning of boys' literature, was brought in as chief editor. Sazanami also served as chief editor for the subsequent publications Yonnen Sekai (first published in 1900), Yonnen Gaho (first published in 1906), and Shojo Sekai (first published in 1906), and was active as an editor of children's magazines and as a fairy tale writer on the stage of these magazines, but her main focus seems to have been on Shonen Sekai.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

少年読者を対象とした雑誌。1895年1月創刊，1933年10月終刊。博文館発行。日清戦争後の時運に乗り，それまで博文館が出していた数種類の雑誌，叢書などを統合して創刊された月2回刊の雑誌。当時，硯友社の新鋭として注目され，少年文学の創始といわれる《こがね丸》を書いていた巌谷小波が主筆に迎えられた。小波は，つづいて創刊された《幼年世界》(1900創刊)，《幼年画報》(1906創刊)，《少女世界》(1906創刊)の主筆を兼ね，これらの雑誌を舞台に，児童雑誌の編集者として，またお伽噺作家として活躍をするが，中心は《少年世界》においていたようである。

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