Bungei (magazine)

Contributors included Ishizaka Yōjirō, Dazai Osamu, Okamoto Kanoko, Hayashi Fumiko, Takami Jun, Nakano Shigeharu, Oda Sakunosuke, Kubokawa Tsurujirō, Kamei Katsuichirō, Hayashi Fusao, Uno Kōji and Miyamoto Yuriko.

When Kaizōsha was closed by the Japanese government in 1944, the magazine name was taken over by the publisher Kawade Shobō Shinsha.

Authors such as Satō Haruo, Kawabata Yasunari, Dazai Osamu, Ibuse Masuji and Mishima Yukio initially wrote for the new magazine.

Prizewinners have included Yasuo Tanaka, Akemi Hotta, Risa Wataya and Natsu Minami.

Along with Shinchō (新潮), Gunzo (群像), Bungakukai (文學界) and Subaru (すばる), Bungei is one of the five leading literary magazines of Japan.