Mostly post links to primary sources on East Asian history. A big fan of the internet archive and its amazing collections. moss-on-stone at protonmail dot com.
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There are 59 issue of the Japanese journal 光, 1919-1926 on Internet Archive, the organ for the spiritual & humanitarian organization Ittōen. The journal includes many pieces by later founder of the new religion 生長の家, but also four articles by philosophers 西田幾多郎 and 和辻哲郎.
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There are 18 issues of the short-lived leftist journal 『大衆』, 1926-8 which preceded the formation of the『労農』on the Internet Archive to read and download.
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All six issues of the 1914 Japanese women's literary journal 番紅花 ("Saffron") are on Internet Archive to read or download. Founded by 青鞜 member and important figure in the queer feminist history of Japan, Otake Beniyoshi (Otake Kazue, Otake Kōkichi, Tomimoto Kazue). 1/2
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There are 23 issues of the journal 種蒔く人 (La Semanto), 1921-1923 which is a key periodical in the emergence of the proletarian literature movement. It is a predecessor to the journal 文芸戦線. archive.org/search?query...
There are over 150 issues of the Japanese general interest magazine『改造』 1919-1930 on the Internet Archive to read or download. This is one of the most important historical periodicals for the study of modern Japan.
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There are 36 issues of the important women's literary journal 女人芸術, 1928-30, on Internet Archive to read and download. Several important feminist, socialist, and anarchist writers contributed to the journal which follows in the footsteps of 青鞜 and 番紅花 (both on IA).
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There are 45 issues of the women's magazine 新女界, 1909-1912 on the Internet Archive to read or download. This was published by the Hongō church, which a number of famous Christian socialists, anarchists, and other interesting figures were members of. 1/2
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2/2 Some male authors were included, such as this article by Yoshino Sakuzō writing about his observations of the domestic life of Yuan Shikai during his visit to Tianjin in 1906. archive.org/details/shin...
2/2 The journal also includes the Japanese translation of Edward Carpenter's 1908 book "The Intermediate Sex" archive.org/details/safu...
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2/2 This journal is extensively discussed by Sarah Frederick in her Turning Pages: Reading and Writing Women’s Magazines in Interwar Japan. The cover of her book comes from a 1932 issue of the journal (not on IA).
