The Origin of Popular Newspapers

210 mm x 148 mm
306pages
JPY3,200
ISBN 9784790709626
Pub date: December 2002
Rights sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean

An attempt to colloquialize the text in the form of total furigana. The introduction of ukiyoe illustrations in news articles. In the course of modernization from the Tokugawa Shogunate era to the Meiji era, newspapers, the first mass media, grew up, capturing the reading public. An empirical study of the social space of small newspapers. 

Table of Contents
Introduction

Chapter 1 What are Small Newspapers?
Chapter 2 Small Newspapers and Literacy Hierarchies
Chapter 3 Style and Language Space of Small Newspapers
Chapter 4 From Nishiki-e Shimbun to Pictorial Small Shinbun
Chapter 5 Writing and Communication in the Early Small Shinbun
Chapter 6 Speech Control in the Early Meiji Period and the Writing Disasters of Small Shimbun
Chapter 7 Small Shinbun in the Mid-Meiji Decade as Seen in Iroha Shinbun
Chapter 8 The Transformation of Small Shinbun in the Latter Half of the 1870s as Seen in Political Party-affiliated Small Shinbun
Chapter 9 The Development of Small Shinbun in Osaka
Chapter 10 New Attempts of Small Shinbun

End of Small Shinbun and the Beginning of the Popular Shimbuns
Appendix: List of Small Shinbuns and Newspaper Circulation Tables