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A literary magazine. From March 1906 (Meiji 39) to December 1920 (Taisho 9). 204 issues in total. It was later renamed "Shinbungaku" in January of the following year, and ceased publication in December. 12 issues. Published by Hakubunkan. Edited by Tayama Katai, Hasegawa Tenkei, and Kano Sakujiro. At first it was a writing practice magazine that focused on letters to the editor, but it gradually changed into a literary magazine for submitted works, and published Kunikida Doppo's "Two Old Men" (1908), Shimazaki Toson's "Sakura no Mi no Jukusuru Toki" (1914), and Tayama Katai's "Ink Pot" (1909), becoming a base for the promotion of naturalism during its heyday. However, its characteristics as a magazine for letters to the editor became a constraint, and it ended up not being able to develop into a magazine for pure literature. However, the magazine's contribution of allowing general readers to participate in the literary world through submissions and of sending many of its submitters into the literary world was great, and it produced such writers as Kubota Mantaro, Uchida Hyakken, Okada Saburo, Hamada Hirosuke, and Mizuno Senko.

[Minoru Hata]

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文芸雑誌。1906年（明治39）3月～20年（大正9）12月。全204冊。その後、翌21年1月『新文学』と改題、12月廃刊。12冊。博文館発行。編集は田山花袋(かたい)、長谷川天渓(てんけい)、加能作次郎。初め投書中心の作文練習誌だったが、しだいに投稿文芸誌に変わり、国木田独歩(どっぽ)の『二老人』（1908）、島崎藤村(とうそん)の『桜の実の熟する時』（1914）、田山花袋の『インキ壺(つぼ)』（1909）などを載せ、自然主義全盛の時期にはその推進の拠点となった。しかし、投書雑誌としての特色が制約となって、純文学の雑誌へと発展できずに終わった。だが、投稿により一般読者を文学界に参加させ、さらにその投稿家を多数文壇に送り出した功績は大きく、久保田万太郎、内田百閒(ひゃっけん)、岡田三郎、浜田広介(ひろすけ)、水野仙子らの作家がここから育った。

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