キング 1930.02
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 / 春雪 表紙 / ナイチンゲール 世界史上の華絵巻 / 十人十色 漫彫・原色版 / 決死の本多忠勝 キング教訓画譜 / 都へ！都へ！ 二色版 / 海外便り / 白雪を蹴つて / よいお祖父様 / 日本を代表して / 笑ひ / カメラの芸術 / 街頭珍風景 / 意外な加工品 / 我輩はステツキである / 早春十景 / 極寒征服 / 楽しい軍隊生活 / 奇抜な類似 / 文明のなやみ / リンカーンとその訓言 / 真剣の歌 / 明治大帝習志野の御一夜 / 暁の鐘は鳴る / 偉くなるには順序・本末 / 人生の決断 / 伸びる力をもみ出す秘訣 / 『キング』を通じて / 光 近作一什 / 修養一夕話 / 偉人は死ぬ時にも / 面白い数字の話 / 葉公の竜 寓話 / 生命の糸毬 同 / 国民の名誉 / 廻文番付 / 食事十訓 / 睡眠十訓 / 運動十訓 / 一行博士 / 心機一転大発奮驚嘆物語 / 水難から意外の出世 / 不良少年から大学者 / 鬼子母 / 黒人の一言 / 幻影の雲晴れて / もつと値打のある仕事を / 番頭の一喝 / 河原乞食から大学者…
- 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