Birth of Triplets

Catalog note / 解説

Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbun Newspaper article #861 In the village of Shishima - in the province of Shima, which neighbors Ise of the Divine Wind - is a farmer called Tabatake Yotaro, and from around 10 in the morning on the 10th day of the 11th month, his wife Tai began to loosen her delivery cord and by around 12 she had given birth to three girls and boys. 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, whic…