キング 1930.01
大日本雄弁会講談社
New to the public domain this year: published in 1930, it is in the public domain in the United States from 1 January 2026 at the latest, 95 years after its publication (earlier, if its copyright was never renewed). The Copyright Office's Circular 15A
Kingu (キング “King”) was the mass-market monthly magazine launched in 1925 under the direction of Kōdansha publishing company founder Noma Seiji (野間清治) and renamed Fuji (富士) in 1943 under the wartime language policy. Designed as a broadly accessible “national mass magazine” rather than a specialist literary, political, or women’s periodical, it combined fiction, biography, moral essays, practical knowledge, humor, visual features, songs, games, and reader-participation columns. Its importance lies in its extraordinary reach: Kingu became the first Japanese magazine to surpass one million copies in circulation and was probably the most widely read general-interest magazine in Japan until the end of World War II. As a source, it is especially valuable for studying interwar mass culture, commercial publishing, household reading, popular nationalism, moral education, entertainment, and the formation of a shared “national” reading public before and during Japan’s wartime mobilization. Contents (目次): 表紙・口絵・グラフ / うらゝか 表紙・バツシスト印刷 / ベルサイユ大会議 世界史上の華絵巻 / 愛の緊縮予算 漫画・原色写真版 / 阿部豊後守と鶉 キング教訓画譜その一 / 氷の殿堂 世界の奇勝・二色写真版 / 輝く御英姿 / 若駒 / 角力 / 雲の上に仕へて / 初春の光 / をどり上手 / 今朝の春 / 昔と今 / 名犬腕くらべ / 愉快な新年 / 壮快な冬の運動 / 結婚風俗さまざま / 輝く女性 / 世界一づくし / はてな？ / 西郷南州と其訓言 / キング行進曲 / 真剣にやりませう 真剣宣伝 社説 / 明るき日本を目ざして / 目の使ひ方、耳の使ひ方、口の使ひ方 / 日本帝国に還れ / 時勢に鑑み同胞に訴ふ / 勅題『海辺巌』 / ふらんす土産 / 恩愛の復讐 / 一行博士 / おでんの代 途上美談 / 海外面白ニュース / 泰西逸話挿話 / 面白い百人一首福引 / 珍聞奇聞話の種 / 頓智二題 / ニコニコ短篇落語選 / 大笑ひ小笑ひ 笑話 / 本誌新掲載万人大熱狂 小説名場面絵巻 / ニコニコパラダイス / 外国名士の特別寄書 /…
- Series
- キング 1930
- Language
- Japanese
- Collection
- The Magazine Rack
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Internet Archive