キング 1930.05
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 / 牡丹 表紙 / ウエリントン 世界史上華絵巻 / 坊やの大見得 漫彫・原色版 / 情味大名 キング教訓画譜 / イグワス瀑布の壮観 二色写真版 / 若葉の頃 / 伊太利皇室の御慶事 / 五月の頌 / ほがらか / 春雨三題 / 髪の今昔 / 偶然のいたづら / 美と力を求めて / 馬を躍らして / 欧米の女学生生活 / 変つた第二世 / これは何でせう / 僕は兵隊 / どちらが本もの / ブース大将とその訓言 / エドワード・グレーの風格 / 犠牲の精神 / 向上不退の一路 / 二つの金言 / 『心の日月』を読みて / 細川忠興の訓言 / 輸出入統計番付 / どういふ訳でせうか / 漫画募集 / 現代十二巨人の大名訓 / 力一杯に働らけ / 山県公の風骨 / 日本紹介赤毛布旅行 / 常に北を指す / 好少年クエンタン / 一笑一顰 / 事の成敗と人の優劣 / 心約 / 鶏の蹴合 / 万人皆我師なり / 真の責任観念 / シャンド氏の親切 / 新掲載の探偵小説 亡霊の指紋 / 名家百字文 / 空の巨人 詩 / 川柳漫画 /…
- 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