Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to consider the sports industries of Japan in the end of the nineteenth century by analysing the advertisements printed in sports magazines: the Bunbusoshi(November, 1894 - March, 1899) and the Undokai(July, 1897 - March, 1900). The following became clear : 1)Four types of industries were recognized: one which manufactured and sold both military gymnastics apparatus and sports goods, one which made and sold medals and trophies, one which initiated a school for teaching bicycling, and several which published books about sports. 2)The leading sports industries derived from those which dealt with commodities for schools.
