Yoshiiku - Modernization of Inns - Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbun

Yoshiiku

Color newspaper insert from issue #566. Honda Tomehira of Fukuroieki in Enshu plans to modernize some inns.

Some 115 prints are now associated with the Tokyo nichinichi shinbun series, the majority of them by Ikkeisai Yoshiiku. These were color inserts in certain editions of the newspaper, created in order to boost sales. The prints usually told of unusual, salacious and violent incidents.

Publisher: Gusokuya Kahei 

Size: 35.4 x 23.8 cm 

Condition: Good impression and color. Margins as shown, not backed. 

Date: 1875

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