I used to find an entire excerpt of a dialogue between 2 people,
printed in a Pro-Tokugawa newspaper, I believe it was in a book
written by STEELE (can't remember exactly). Basically the dialogue
addressed the common people's frustration with both sides of the
conflict and used word play to poke fun of some of the leaders of
the Ishin and Tokugawa factions...but it was still noticeable Pro-
Tokugawa.
but I found another reference in this book....
Author: Rubin, Jay, 1941-
Title: Injurious to public morals : writers and the Meiji state
Publisher:Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1984.
ISBN: 0295960434
(page 20)
"The first items of journalism banned by the new government were
handbills and woodblock color printes (nishikie) that evinced a pro-
Tokugawa bias in depicting the military skirmishes against the
Bakufu forces. This was in May of 1868. In that same month, the
demand for military news led to the establishment of some of Japan's
first newspapers, a half-dozen irregularly issued publications
printed from wood blocks on few sheets of rice paper. One of these,
Fukuchi Gen'ichiro's KOKO SHIMBUN, became the first newspaper to be
prohibited from publishing, also for its pro-Tokugawa (or rather,
anti-Satsume-Choshu) bias. Its final issue, the twenty second,
appeared on July 11, 1868. When it was banned, Fukuchi was jailed
for eight days and his woodblocks were confiscated. On July 27 the
government temporarily wiped out all newspapers by requiring them to
obtain the same "official permission" to publish required of books."
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1942 an army major expressed admiration for a magazine called
REVERE THE EMPEROR EXPEL THE BARBARIANS
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Mori Ogai, a very famous writer during the Meiji and one of Higuchi
Ichiyo's closest guy pals (books on Higuchi Ichiyo will include
Mori's picture), was not only a friend of Natsume Soseki but also a
competitor in a sense. Mori and Natsume met formally on at least 3
occasions and sought advice with one another in terms of
publications. Threads on all three of these writers can be found in
the MEIJI section of
http://www.shinsengumimb.com
Mori Ogai attracted controversy with his book VITA SEXUALIS 1909
usually simplified to be the sexual biography of a professor
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Tokio "I just finished reading Mori Ogai's novel"
Fujita Goro ::gasp:: "Tokio! Why are you reading that smut?"
Tokio "I heard from the school that all the young ladies are reading
Mori's work"
*historically accurate by the way, Mori Ogai had the same exact fan
base as Higuchi Ichiyo
Fujita Goro (snatches novel from Tokio's hands and skims some of the
pages Tokio folded for *re-reading later)
Tokio "see, its not that bad"
Fujita Goro "My friend Harada could do a better job writing about
his sex life"
Tokio (^_^)