| Subaru スバル | |
| Editor: | Ishikawa Takuboku |
| Editor Title: | Editor |
| Frequency: | Monthly |
| Category: | Literary magazine |
| Firstdate: | January 1909 |
| Finaldate: | December 1913 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
was a literary magazine published monthly in Japan between January 1909 and December 1913.[1] [2] The name of the publisher was, written in kanji as opposed to the magazine title written in katakana.
Subaru was the spiritual successor to the better-known and longer-running magazine Myōjō.[1] [2] It mainly focused on the publication of poetry and was known for its advocacy of the trend of romanticism in Japanese literature in the late Meiji period (1868 - 1912).[1] [2] It was priced at 30 sen (0.3 yen) and ultimately published 60 issues in total.[3] [4]
In 1909, after Myōjō ceased publication, Mori Ōgai[2] and a few other prominent Myōjō writers including Tekkan Yosano[2] and Akiko Yosano came together to publish a new magazine that would become Subaru. Ishikawa Takuboku initially served as editor.[1] The magazine was noted for publishing works by Ishikawa, as well as Mokutaro Kinoshita, Kōtarō Takamura, Yoshii Isamu (1886 - 1960), and Hakushū Kitahara (the latter leaving Myōjō in January 1908 was one of the factors contributing to its going out of print[5]).[6] Anti-Naturalist and Romantic writings were most prominent, and writers known for having their works published in Subaru were known as .
Among the works Mori Ōgai published in the magazine were The Wild Geese,[2] Vita Sexualis, and Seinen.[1] Yoshii first published Sake hogai and Gogo san-ji in the magazine. The complete run of Subaru was reprinted in facsimile in 1965 by the publishing house Rinsen Shoten.[7]