- Shōjo Sekai
] . nihongo3|"Chukyo Women's University Children's Culture Studies, No. 9"|中京女子大学子ども文化学研究 第９号|Chūkyō Joshi Daigaku Kodomo bunkagaku kenkyū dai kyū gō. Nagoya: [http://www.chujo-u.ac.jp/ nihongo3|Chukyo Women's University|中京女子大学|Chūkyō Joshi Daigaku] . Retrieved on 2008-09-16.]
According to Nagai, for the first ten years of its publication it was the best-selling shōjo magazine of the time, with peak circulations somewhere between 150,000 to 200,000 copies per issue. [Nagai, Kiyoko (nihongo2|永井紀代子) (2000). nihongo3|"Birth of the Girls’ Liberated Zone: "Girls’ World" and ‘Girls’ Reading Circles’"|誕生・少女たちの解放区〜『少女世界』と「少女読書会」|Tanjō - shōjotachi nokaihōku: “Shōjo Sekai” to ‘shōjo dokusho kai’. In nihongo3|“Women’s and Men’s Space-Time 9”|女と男の時空 ９|Onna to otoko no jikū kyū, edited by Nobuko Kohno (nihongo2|河野信子), pp. 278-311. Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten nihongo2|藤原書店. ISBN 978-4894342125.]
The final issue of "Shōjo Sekai" was the December 1931 issue.
Contributors
"Shōjo Sekai" had a number of well known contributors over the years, including the following:
*Sazanami Iwaya (nihongo2|巌谷 小波), author, children's author, editor, publisher
*Yasunari Kawabata , novelist and short story author
*Chiyo Kitagawa (nihongo2|北川 千代), children's author
*Tama Morita , essayist
*Midori Osaki (nihongo2|尾崎 翠), novelist
*Kikuko Oshima (nihongo2|尾島 菊子), author
*Akiko Yosano, poet, feminist, pacifist, and social reformerReferences
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