Catalog record · 目録番号 78752
Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbun (Newspaper)
Catalog note / 解説
No. 911, A man holding a sword trying to chase away burglars. In 1874, just a few years after the birth of the modern newspaper industry in Japan, Ukiyoe printmakers [ezousiya] published nishikie shinbun, a variety of broadsides which combined traditional color wood-block-prints [Nishikie] and short news articles [shinbun]. A group of illustrators and writers from the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbun, which is the first daily newspaper published in Tokyo, joined forces to publish the first nishikie shinbun titled \"Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbun\" in 1874. They usually based the nishikie shinbun on articles taken directly from newspapers that were published anywhere from two days to two months earlier.…
Image record / 画像情報
ROBYNBUNTIN · 1875 · robynbuntin
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