"Iroha Newspaper" - Iroha Newspaper

...He then attracted attention with his work Agura Nabe (1871-72), which captured the social conditions of the Meiji Restoration. After the promulgation of the Sanjo Educational Constitution in 1872, he withdrew from writing for a while, but returned with the revival of newspaper journalism, founding and presiding over Kanayomi Shimbun and Iroha Shimbun, among others, and publishing gibum, continuations, and theater reviews. Among his works, Takahashi Oden Yasha Monogatari (1879) was a new type of realistic story that combined news and storytelling, and contributed to the revival of Meiji-era gesaku (comic writing). ...

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…ついで文明開化期の世相をとらえた《安愚楽鍋（あぐらなべ）》(1871‐72)で話題をよぶ。1872年〈三条の教憲〉公布後はしばらく文筆活動から遠ざかったが，新聞ジャーナリズムの活発化とともに復活，自ら《仮名読（かなよみ）新聞》《いろは新聞》などを創刊主宰し，戯文（ぎぶん），続き読物，劇評を発表する。なかでも《高橋阿伝夜叉譚（たかはしおでんやしやものがたり）》(1879)はニュースと物語を結合させた新しい現実再現譚としての性格を持ち，明治期の戯作の復興に貢献した。…

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