Myōjō

Myojo (Japanese明星) was a monthly Japanese literary magazine for poetry, which was moved from April 1900 to November 1908. The title of the magazine can be translated with the morning star or the bright star.

The magazine was also the message body founded by Yosano Tekkan 1899 poetry circle Shinshisha (新 诗社, like: Society for New Poetry ). The magazine Myojo had originally prescribed the development and promotion of a modern 31- morigen tanka form. Other important members of the poetry circle, those published in the Myojo, were poets who belong to the Japanese romance and the flow of aestheticism, as Yosano Akiko Hagiwara Sakutaro, Ishikawa Takuboku, Ivano Homei, Kitahara Hakushu, Noguchi Yonejirō, Kinoshita uncircumcised and Satō Haruo. The magazine was advised by Mori Ogai, Ueda Bin and Baba Kocho, with Yosano Tekkan published as editor, the magazine.

Disagreement in the poet circle then led in 1908 to adjust the magazine with issue number 100 The magazine was later revived twice: 1921-1927 also of Yosano Tekkan and 1947 until 1949.

Particular incidents

In Issue No. 8, a two-page nude picture, which was inspired by a French paintings and designed by illustrator Ichijō seibi appeared. This picture caused outrage, whereupon this edition was banned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs because of moral standards. Ichijō took responsibility and was subsequently excluded from the circle of poets.