Bungeishunju Archives This link opens in a new windowThis JapanKnowledge content comprises a full collection of all 323 issues of Bungei Shunju (文藝春秋), a major literary magazine in Japan, from the founding issue to December 1950 (excepting special issues) as the Bungeishunju Archives. Around 90,000 pages of the original magazine are made available in PDF format. These pages contain essays, fiction, and articles by over 4,000 authors and contributors published in the 28 years up to the post-war period.
For enhanced convenience, as well as searches for headlines in article titles, searches have also been made possible by year and month of issue and author name. Moreover, as the full text of the body of articles, with the exception of advertisements, is given, full-text searches are also possible by keywords, proper nouns, etc. that appear in the articles. In addition, using the faceted search function available in the advanced search window, search results can be narrowed down, enabling extraction of the targeted article.