The new content "Kodomo no Kuni magazine article search" is a database which offers digital images of the picture magazine “Kodomo no Kuni”.

This time, about 1,600 images from “Kodomo no Kuni” which proved to be copyright-free will be available.

Okamoto Kiichi
“koinobori”
Volume 6 Number 5
(1927.5)

Picture Book Gallery
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"Kodomo no Kuni magazine article search"
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"Kodomo no Kuni magazine article search"

The Picture Book Gallery was launched in May 2000. Besides the new addition, the following contents are available;

“Children’s Books: Transmission of Images”
“Edo Picture Books and Japonisme”
“The Picture Book as Stage: The Stories, Songs, and Poetry of Three Picture Book Creators of Nineteenth-century England”
“Jugendstil Picture Book Artists and Their Contemporaries”
“Kodomo no Kuni: Artists and Children’s Books in 1920s Japan”
“Modernism in the Picture Book : Art and Daily Life”
“The American Picture Book: Prologue to the Golden Age”

The picture magazine

The picture magazine was a multicolored magazine for children. It carries a picture on every page. In Japan, it was published regularly from the beginning of the 20th century when early childhood education was attracting attention.

“Kodomo no Kuni” was published monthly from January 1922 (Volume 1, Number 1) to March 1944 (Volume 23, Number 3) by Tokyo-sha, 287 volumes in all.

Honda Syoutarou
“suwanbune”
Volume 1 Number 6 (1922.6)