(JAPAN--NEWSPAPER.) Picture Newspaper reproving Vice and protecting Virtue (Kanzen choaku Nishikie Shimbun). Numbers 4-19 inclusive. Together, 16 color woodblock prints showing evil deeds. Each approximately 175x245 mm (7x9 1/2 inches). Osaka, circa 1880
Nice run of a Japanese tabloid sheet which developed from bulletins called kawaraban. Each sheet contains a single story of murder, drownings, infanticide, violence, etc.
