Abstract:This article examines Yoshikawa Eiji's period novel Miyamoto Musashi (1935–39) and the media environment in which it first appeared. Looking specifically at the version of the novel that was serialized in the Asahi shinbun, I consider how the newspaper as a whole and Yoshikawa's text offer readers various gender identities with which they can relate. The format of the newspaper and structure of the novel, I argue, grant readers a certain level of freedom to identify across gender lines, although the patriarchal values of the text and the wider social context inevitably set limits for this process.

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吉川荣次的报纸小说宫本武藏、性别和商业新闻

摘要：本文考察了吉川荣次的时代小说宫本武藏（1935-39）及其首次出现的媒体环境。特别是在朝日新闻连载的小说版本中，我考虑了整个报纸和吉川的文本如何为读者提供了他们可以与之相关的各种性别身份。我认为，报纸的格式和小说的结构赋予读者一定程度的自由，可以跨性别进行识别，尽管文本的父权价值观和更广泛的社会背景不可避免地为这一过程设置了限制。