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, founded the company in Yumi, Hongà Â, Tokyo (now part of Hongà Â, Bunkyà Â, Tokyo). The company was named after Ità  Hirobumi, based on an alternate pronunciation of his given name. Hakubunkan began publishing the magazine in 1887 as well. One of the most famous stories to appear in the magazine was (also known as The Golden Demon) by Ozaki Kà Âyà Â, who based two of the characters in the play on (son of the founder of the company) and Tomiyama Tadatsugu.
Hakubunkan then established Tà Âkyà Âdà  (the predecessor of Tà Âkyà Âdà  Shoten and Tohan Corporation) in 1891. The following year, Tà Âkyà Âdà  moved to Hongoku, a neighborhood of Nihonbashi in Tokyo (now located in Chà «à Â). In 1893, Tà Âkyà Âdà  became a domestic and foreign news agency. At the beginning of 1895, Hakubunkan began publishing the general interest magazine . The Hakubunkan Printing Office (predecessor of Kyodo Printing) was then established in 1896.
In the years 1895-1933 Hakubunkan published , the "first large-scale literary magazine in Japan directed at a mass audience". Its early contributors included Kawakami Bizan, Hirotsu Ryurà Â, Kosugi Tengai, Izumi Kyoka and Higuchi Ichiyo.
To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, Hakubunkan opened the free private (now the Sankà  Library) on June 15, 1902. The library is located in the Shiba Park neighborhood of Minato Ward in Tokyo.
Due to the Great Kantà  earthquake in 1923, the building which housed the headquarters of Hakubunkan was destroyed by fire, and the company relocated to the Tozaki area of Koishikawa, Tokyo (now part of Bunkyà  Ward). After the magazine Taiyà  ceased publication in 1927, Hakubunkan continued to operate in the red, finally splitting into three companies in 1948: Hakuyà «sha, Kà Âyà «sha, and Kà Âbunkan. Hakuyà «sha began using the Hakubunkan name again in 1949 before changing it again to Hakubunkan Shinsha in 1950.
Hakubunkan has published many magazines, including the following: