Popular Literature for Women in Prewar Japan: Works by ar Japan: Works by KATO Takeo

タイシュウ　ブンガク　ト　ジェンダー　ケンキュウ　ノ　タメニ　ツウゾク　ショウセツ　サッカ　カトウタケオ　サクヒン　ビブリオグラフィー

キムラ, リョウコ

Kimura, Ryoko

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ キョウイクガクケイ

Department of Education, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

In modern Japan, both popular literature (taishu-bungaku or tsuuzoku-shosetsu in Japanese) and serious literature (jun-bungaku in Japanese) developed together with the mass media. The increase in educated and literate women led to the development of women’s magazines and popular literature for women. Many of the earlier writers for popular women’s magazines have been lost to history, as the ranking system in the world of literature put popular literature for women on an inferior level. This paper focuses on Kato Takeo as one of the forgotten popular writers for women’s magazines, listing his works into a special bibliography, and aiming to analyze the history of popular literature for women from a gender perspective.