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In December 1936, Dainihon Yubenkai Kodansha began publishing the Kodansha Picture Books series aimed at an audience younger than that of its youth-oriented magazine, Yonen Club. Using the best nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) artists and Western-style illustrators of the time, the popular series aimed to create titles to be looked at as opposed to being read. At its peak, Kodansha was publishing one million copies per month. It had published 203 titles when the series ended its publication in April 1942. First published in 1939, Songoku was the 95th title ...