''Bungei'' (文藝) (English, "The Literary Arts") is a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

literary magazine published by

Kawade Shobō Shinsha , formerly , is a publisher founded in 1886 in Japan and headquartered in Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo. It publishes the magazine '' Bungei'' and administers the Bungei Prize. History Kawade Shobō Shinsha traces its history to 1886 when a new br ...

.Christopher Keaveney,
Cultural Evolution of Postwar Japan: The Intellectual Contributions of Kaizo's Yamamoto Sanehiko
', New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p. 59. It was first published by the

Kaizōsha Kaizōsha (改造社) was a major Japanese publishing company in the first half of the 20th century.Dazai Osamu was a Japanese author. A number of his most popular works, such as ''The Setting Sun'' (''Shayō'') and ''No Longer Human'' (''Ningen Shikkaku''), are considered modern-day classics. His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikib ...

, Okamoto Kanoko, Hayashi Fumiko, Takami Jun,

Nakano Shigeharu was a Japanese writer and Japanese Communist Party (JCP) politician. Nakano was born in Maruoka, now part of Sakai, Fukui. In 1914 he enrolled in middle school in Fukui, Fukui, and attended high school in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa and Kanazawa, Ish ...

Oda Sakunosuke was a Japanese writer. He is often grouped together with Osamu Dazai and Ango Sakaguchi as the '' Buraiha.'' Literally meaning ruffian or hoodlum faction, this label was not a matter of a stylistic school but one bestowed upon them by conservat ...

, Kubokawa Tsurujirō, Kamei Katsuichirō,

Hayashi Fusao was the pen name of a Japanese novelist and Literary criticism, literary critic in Shōwa period Japan. He is known for his early works in the proletarian literature movement, although he later became a strong ultranationalism, ultranationalist. ...

, Uno Kōji and Miyamoto Yuriko. When Kaizōsha was closed by the Japanese government in 1944, the magazine name was taken over by the publisher Kawade Shobō Shinsha. Authors such as Satō Haruo,

Kawabata Yasunari was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal a ...

Dazai Osamu was a Japanese author. A number of his most popular works, such as ''The Setting Sun'' (''Shayō'') and ''No Longer Human'' (''Ningen Shikkaku''), are considered modern-day classics. His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikib ...

Ibuse Masuji was a Japanese author. His most notable work is the novel '' Black Rain''. Early life and education Ibuse was born in 1898 to a landowning family in the village of , which is now part of Fukuyama, Hiroshima. Ibuse failed his entrance exam to ...

and

Mishima Yukio , born , was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, Nationalism, nationalist, and founder of the , an unarmed civilian militia. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was ...

initially wrote for the new magazine. From the 1950s

Noma Hiroshi was a Japanese poet, novelist and essayist. According to literary scholar Doug Slaymaker, Noma is widely credited with having discovered or invented the style of writing called by the term "postwar literature" (''sengo bungaku'') in Japan. Ear ...

, Nakamura Shin'ichirō and

Nakamura Mitsuo was the pen-name of a writer of biographies and stage-plays, and a literary critic active in Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Koba Ichirō. Early life Nakamura Mitsuo was born in Tokyo, in the plebeian district of Shitaya, (present-day Akih ...

were added. The magazine was discontinued in 1957. Since its resumption in 1962, the magazine has once again published original articles and reviews of contemporary literature. Contributions were made or made by

Takahashi Kazumi was a Japanese novelist and scholar of Chinese literature in Shōwa period Japan. His wife was fellow writer Takako Takahashi. Biography Takahashi was born in Naniwa-ku, Osaka, and was a graduate of Kyoto University. While still a student, he co ...

Ishihara Shintarō was a Japanese politician and writer who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of the radical right Japan Restoration Party, he was one of the most prominent ultranationalists in modern Japanese politics. An ultranat ...

, Masahiro Mita and

Jūrō Kara is a Japanese avant-garde playwright, theatre director, author, actor, and songwriter. He was at the forefront of the ''Angura'' ("underground") theatre movement in Japan. Career Graduating from Meiji University, Kara formed his own theatre trou ...

. Until 1980 the magazine was published monthly. It has been published quarterly since 1980. Since 2011 the editor-in-chief has been

Ikezawa Natsuki is a Japanese poet, novelist, essayist and translator. He draws upon the relationship between civilization and nature in his writing, among other themes. Ikezawa translates a wide variety of writing, from contemporary Greek poetry to modern novel ...

. The publisher has been awarding the

Bungei Prize The is a Japanese literary award given by publishing company Kawade Shobō Shinsha. It was first awarded in 1962. The award is intended to recognize new writers, and several famous Japanese writers have won the award, but many Bungei Prize winner ...

(文藝賞, Bungeishō), every November since 1962. The Prize is intended to recognize new writers. Prizewinners have included Yasuo Tanaka, Akemi Hotta,

Risa Wataya is a female Japanese novelist from Kyoto. Her short novel ''Keritai senaka'' won the Akutagawa Prize and has sold more than a million copies. Wataya has also won the Bungei Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize. Her work has been translated into Ge ...

and Natsu Minami. Along with ''

Shinchō is a Japanese literary magazine published monthly by Shinchosha. Since its launch in 1904 it has published the works of many of Japan's leading writers. Along with '' Bungakukai'', ''Gunzo'', '' Bungei'' and ''Subaru'', it is one of the five ...

'' (新潮), ''

Gunzo {{Unreferenced, date=December 2009 :''The article is about the historical figure. For the Japanese magazine, see Gunzo''. Gunzo (also ''Cunzo'') was a 7th-century duke of the Alamanni under Frankish sovereignty. His residence was at ''villa Iburni ...

'' (群像), ''

Bungakukai is a Japanese monthly literary magazine published by Bungeishunjū 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 t ...

'' (文學界) and ''Subaru'' (すばる), Bungei is one of the five leading literary magazines of Japan.

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