2010 年 76 巻 p. 255-273
This paper aims to clarify class-consciousness and its changing process
appeared in popular newspapers in early modern Japan. The research is based
on a study of the /Yomiuri Shimbun/, /Tokyo Eiri Shimbun/, /Kanayomi Shimbun/
and some other newspapers in 1870s.
Until 1877, in the trend of civilization, writers and contributors of popular
newspapers had admonished urban people who were mainly comprised of artisans
and rickshaw drivers. But from mid-1877, as the trend became weaker, the
media began to consider it unnecessary to admonish them anymore, and started
to call them“ inferior class”