IHL Cat. #2112
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This kuchi-e mounted on a square card, reproduced using chromolithography and, likely, an offset press, was an appendix (supplement) to the New Year's Day 1929 issue of the newspaper "Fukuoka Nichinichi Shinbun" (1880-1942) which then changed its name to the "Nishinippon Shinbun" in 1942
In the early years of the Taishō era (1912-1926), newspaper publishers began to issue frequent supplements to their regular editions. The supplements were used to advertise special events and commemorate anniversaries with the intent of increasing sales and enhancing the small size of the their papers (generally 4 to 8 pages). Not subject to the news cycle, they could be prepared and composed in the off-hours. With the advent of the changeover to rotary offset presses capable of faithful reproduction of artistic work during the early Taishō era newspapers such as the Jiji shinpō 時事新報 and Yomiuri Shimbun 讀賣新聞 extended their supplemental offerings to the ever-popular bijinga genre.
For more information on this genre the article Bijin Kuchi-e and Taisho-Era Popular Magazines on this website.
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5/14/2024 created
Printing on verso
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right section: 讀み人 木谷千種 女史筆 Yomibito, from the brush of Miss Kotani Chigusa
center section top line: 明治廿五年三月廿一日第三種郵便物認可 第壹萬六千貳百四拾七號附錄 Third-class mail approval granted on March 21, 1892; Appendix to issue 16,247
center section center line: 昭和四年一月一日 発行兼編輯人 池田貞記 January 1, 1929; Publisher and editor Ikeda Sadaki;
center section bottom line: 福岡日日新聞 印刷人 古屋熊三郎 Fukuoka Nichi Nichi Shinbun; Printer Kumasaburō Furuya (reading of name not confirmed)
left section top line: 福岡市下警固九百八拾四番地 984 Motokago, Chūō-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
left section bottom line: 発行所 福岡日日新聞合資会社 Publishing house Fukuoka Nichinichi Shinbun gōshi kaisha
bottom left section small print: 大阪中田印刷所印〓 Ōsaka Nakata Printing Company
