Shōjo no tomo (少女の友, Shōjo no tomo, "Girls' Friend") was a Japanese magazine published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha from February 1908 to June 1955.[1][2] It featured early shōjo manga-style imagery,[3] and work by Takuboku Ishikawa, Katsuji Matsumoto, Jun'ichi Nakahara,[4] and Akiko Yosano.

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References

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  1. ^ "Shōjo no tomo". Trove. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  2. ^ Miyako Inoue (2006). Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London: University of California Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-520-24584-6.
  3. ^ Natsu Onoda Power (2009). God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga. Jackson, MS: Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-60473-478-2.
  4. ^ "The History of Manga, Part 2". Three Steps over Japan. 8 December 2009. Retrieved 28 February 2016.

Further reading

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  • Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase, "Girls on the Home Front: An Examination of Shōjo no tomo Magazine 1937–1945" in Asian Studies Review, 09/2008; 32:323-339. doi:10.1080/10357820802294172