Kōga Gekkan

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Kōga Gekkan (光画月刊[1]) was a rather short-lived monthly Japanese photographic magazine.

Kōga Gekkan was started as a magazine for amateur photographers by a one-time editor of Ars Camera, who had started a new publisher, Kōgasō (光画荘). Its first issue was that for November 1939; its last before the war intensified was that of December 1940, whereupon it was merged with Kogata Camera and Amateur Camera to form Shashin Nihon.

The magazine was revived with a January 1949 issue, but from its January 1955 issue it was renamed Gekkan Camera (月刊カメラ, Gekkan kamera[2]). From its October 1958 issue, the latter was merged within Camera no Tomo (カメラの友, Kamera no tomo[3]); the last issue of this was December 1959.

This magazine was unrelated to the earlier (1932–3) and better-known magazine Kōga (光画).

Notes

  1. The front cover of the January 1949 issue, shown by Shirayama in Shashin-zasshi no kiseki, has the title with a nonstandard and unusual form of the 画 character, with "_" at the bottom instead of "凵". The title means "Photography Monthly" (although kōga is an archaism for "photography"). It is not known whether this or any other English-language title appeared on or in the magazine.
  2. I.e. "Camera Monthly". It is not known whether this or any other English-language title appeared on or in the magazine.
  3. I.e. "Friends of the Camera". It is not known whether this or any other English-language title appeared on or in the magazine.

Links and sources

In Japanese:

  • Shirayama Mari (白山眞理). "Nihon no shashin/kamera zasshi" (日本の写真・カメラ雑誌). Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu (日本写真史概説, "An outline history of photography in Japan"). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. ISBN 4-00-008381-3. P. 40.
  • Shirayama Mari (白山眞理). Shashin zasshi no kiseki (写真雑誌の奇跡, "Traces of camera magazines"). Tokyo: JCII Library, 2001. P. 11.

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