Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 78752

Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbun (Newspaper)

Artist / 作者
Ochiai Yoshiiku落合芳幾
Date / 年代
1875
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / robynbuntin
Digital record / 画像記録
348 × 504 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Robyn Buntin of Honolulu
Published by / 公開者
朱雀ハル
Rights / 権利
No commercial-app permission documented
Attribution / 表記
Robyn Buntin of Honolulu

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.…

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