Bluestocking was a Japanese feminist magazine founded in 1911 by Raicho Hiratsuka

Raicho Hiratsuka

was a writer, journalist, political activist and pioneering Japanese feminist.- Life :Born Haru Hiratsuka in Tokyo in 1886, the second daughter of a high ranking civil servant...

 and produced by Hiratsuka and other members of the related group, the Bluestocking Society (Seitō-sha；青鞜社). An exhausted Hiratsuka turned over the reins to Noe Ito

Noe Ito

was a Japanese anarchist, social critic, author and feminist.-Biography:Itō graduated from Ueno Girls' High School in Ueno, Tokyo, and joined the Bluestocking Society , producer of the feminist arts and culture magazine Seitō in 1912...

 in 1915. Ito produced the journal with little assistance for almost another year. Its last issue was published in February 1916. Many members were referred to and referred to themselves as "New Women," a term whose negative connotations they rejected. Originally focusing on women's literature, it soon shifted focus towards women's liberation. Hiratsuka opened the first issue with the words, “In the beginning, woman was the sun.” (「原始、女性は太陽であった」) – a reference to the Shinto

Shinto

or Shintoism, also kami-no-michi, is the indigenous spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people. It is a set of practices, to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present day Japan and its ancient past. Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written...

 myth of creation. Contributors included renowned poet and women’s rights proponent Yosano Akiko

Yosano Akiko

was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji period as well as the Taishō and early Showa periods of Japan. Her name at birth was Otori Shô. She is one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets...

 and author Yoshiya Nobuko among others.