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11-582: The Kokusho Sōmokuroku ( 国書総目録 ) loosely, "General Catalog of National Books") is a Japanese reference work that indexes books published in Japan or written by Japanese before 1867. First published by the Iwanami Shoten company in 1963, an expanded edition was released in 1989. In its current edition, the Kokusho Sōmokuroku consists of eight volumes, in addition to an author index and appendix. The catalog

22-584: A Japanese corporation- or company-related topic is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sekai (magazine) Sekai (Japanese: 世界 "World") is a Japanese monthly political magazine published by Iwanami Shoten , which was founded in December 1945. The first issue was published in 1946. The magazine is published monthly. It has a left-wing or progressive political stance. The magazine's founding principles were "peace and social justice, freedom and equality, and harmony and solidarity with

33-548: A book in 1914 after being serialized in the Asahi Shimbun . Iwanami has since become known for scholarly publications, editions of classical Japanese literature, dictionaries, and high-quality paperbacks. Since 1955, it has published the Kōjien , a single-volume dictionary of Japanese that is widely considered to be authoritative. Iwanami's head office is at Hitotsubashi 2–5–5, Chiyoda, Tokyo . Iwanami Shigeo founded

44-467: A list of which is given in the beginning of each volume. The revised and expanded edition was released by Iwanami in 1989; however, the only major changes are symbols which cross-reference the main index with the appendixes and companion volumes. As of 2004, an online edition of the Kokusho Sōmokuroku is available at the website of the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL). The database

55-416: Is first listed in kanji , followed by reading in katakana . Each entry contains the name of the author or editor (when known), edition, date of publication (sometimes approximate), number of volumes, and genre. For each title, library and collection holdings are listed, with attention to the edition, including reprints, modern editions, wood-block prints , and so on. These listings contain many abbreviations,

66-575: Is searchable by title, author, genre and date, but is only accessible in Japanese and does not list textual variants or library holdings. The companion volume to the Kokusho Sōmokuroku is the Kotenseki Sōgō Mokuroku , published by Iwanami in 1990. It is a print version of the catalog of post-Meiji Japanese works listed by the NIJL, and contains a total of 91,000 entries, 43,000 of which do not appear in

77-696: The Iwanami Bunko  [ ja ] (Iwanami Library), a "major series of international works". During the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Second World War , the firm was repeatedly censored because of its positions against the war and the Emperor. Iwanami Shigeo was even sentenced to two months in prison for the publication of the banned works of Tsuda Sōkichi (a sentence which he did not serve, however). Shortly before his death in 1946, he founded

88-452: The newspaper Sekai , which had a great influence in post-war Japanese intellectual circles. In 1955, the company released its Japanese language dictionary, Kōjien , which is highly regarded today and sold more than eleven million copies in 2007. During the post-war decades, it continued to publish numerous foreign classics as well as encyclopedias. In 2010, around 20,000 titles were released by Iwanami Shoten. This article about

99-428: The original Kokusho Sōmokuroku . The organizational structure is the same as the original volume, with the exception that alternate titles are listed in a separate index opposed to cross-referenced in the main text. It consists of two volumes plus indexes. Iwanami Shoten Iwanami Shoten was founded in 1913 by Iwanami Shigeo . Its first major publication was Natsume Sōseki 's novel Kokoro , which appeared as

110-450: The publishing firm Iwanami Shoten in the Kanda district of Tokyo in 1913. In its early years, the company published authors such as Natsume Sōseki, Kurata Hyakuzō and Abe Jiro. It also published academic and literary journals in the field of philosophy, including Shijo (1917) and Shicho (1921), science, including Kagaku (1931), and literature, such as Bungaku (1933). In 1927, it launched

121-625: Was put together by compiling over one million library catalog cards from over 600 libraries across Japan in an effort to catalog books published before the Meiji Restoration still in existence that were written in Japan or by Japanese nationals. The catalog does not contain Chinese classics , Buddhist scriptures , or books from non-Japanese sources. The catalog is organized by title which are listed in gojūon (Japanese syllabary) order (by line and initial sound) as opposed to Iroha order. The title

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