Hakubunkan
| Industry | Publishing |
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| Founded | 1887 |
| Founder | Ōhashi Sahei |
| Headquarters | 〒162-0824 Tokyo-to, Shinjuku Ageba 2-27 |
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Area served
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Japan |
| Services | Book publishing |
| Website | http://www.hakubunkan.co.jp/ |
Hakubunkan (博文館新社 Hakubunkan Shinsha?) is a Japanese publishing company founded in 1887 amidst the wealth and military prosperity of the Meiji era. Hakubunkan entered the publishing arena by printing a nationalist magazine as well as expanding into printing, advertising, paper manufacturing, and related businesses, becoming one of Japan's largest publishing companies in the process.
Hakubunkan Shinsha's primary business is now publication of various diaries, journals, and day planners, especially those from the era of the original Hakubunkan company.
Hakubunkan is not related to the Osaka school teaching materials company Hakubun.
In 1887, Ōhashi Sahei (大橋 佐平?) founded the company in Yumi, Hongō, Tokyo (now part of Hongō, Bunkyō, Tokyo). The company was named after Itō Hirobumi, based on an alternate pronunciation of his given name. Hakubunkan began publishing the magazine Nihon Taika Ronshū (日本大家論集?, lit. Japan Expert Treatise Collection) in 1887 as well. One of the most famous stories to appear in the magazine was The Usurer (Konjiki Yasha) (also known as The Golden Demon) by Ozaki Kōyō, who based two of the characters in the play on Ōhashi Shintarō (大橋 新太郎?) (son of the founder of the company) and Tomiyama Tadatsugu.
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