The headquarters of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun — Japan's leading daily newspaper — occupied a red-brick building on Ginza's main thoroughfare, and Kiyochika depicted it in this 1876 composition as emblematic of the modernising capital. The press building's Western-style architecture, flanked by rickshaws and pedestrians in both Western and traditional dress, encapsulates the hybrid streetscape of Meiji Ginza in its transformation from Edo commercial district to modern boulevard. The print predates Kiyochika's main Tokyo meisho series but shows the same reportorial impulse.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Building of Tokyo Daily Newspaper, Ginza, Tokyo, 1876 was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親).
Building of Tokyo Daily Newspaper, Ginza, Tokyo, 1876 depicts urban scenes and architecture, set at Tokyo, Ginza.
