Miyako Shinbun

Miyako Shinbun (都新聞) was the first Japanese daily newspaper to be published in an evening edition.

[2] In the first decade of the 20th century, the circulation of Miyako Shinbun was among the top seven in Japan.

[5] It merged with the Kokumin Shinbun in 1942 to form the Tokyo Shimbun.

In the 1890s, the newspaper had established a reputation for carrying translated or adapted versions of Western novels; but the advent of the First Sino-Japanese War became, in part, a cause for a shift in emphasis to featuring the work of Japanese writers.

This historical novel was the longest in the Japanese language until Tokugawa Ieyasu.