Gusokuya edition Blue publisher Yellow carver Yosha Bunko	Gusokuya edition Blue publisher Yellow carver Yosha Bunko	Tsujibun edition White publisher White carver Ono Collection
Publisher and carver cartouches On practically all TNS prints, the backgrounds of the publisher and printer cartouches, on the red margin lower right, are white. On a few issues, however, they are yellow. And some yellow-yellow issues (such as TNS 687) have yellow-white and/or white-white variations. Here is an unusual example of a blue-yellow color scheme in the Gusokuya edition with a white-white variation in the Tsujibun edition -- in addition to other color variations.

Tokyo nichinichi shinbun
No. 822   1874-10-12 (1874-10x)
Family of thieves

Story in brief

The wife wears the sword in this family and burglarizes homes while her husband watches the street with their baby on his back. Here the family is going home after a successful heist. If caught in the act, she would probably say she was just cleaning house. (WW)

Commentary

According to the seal, this nishikie was approved for publication the same month the article appeared in the newspaper.

The writer, Dondon, identifies himself as a "News bureau employee" (Shinbunkyoku no yatoido). Dondon is more fully Tentendo Dondon, aka Tentendo Shujin or just Shujin, among other pennames of the writer Takabatake Ransen, a popular writer hired by Tokyo nichinichi shinbun in 1873. (WW)