锦绘新闻是融合了日本浮世绘艺术“锦绘”与近代日本文明开化时期的“报纸”新 闻元素的新闻媒介。它诞生于日本新闻业从瓦版向近代化报纸的过渡时期，既有日本旧 式报纸的特点，也有近代化报纸的元素，成为了连结两者之间的桥梁。

    本文利用在地条件的便利性，从日本国立国会图书馆、东京大学法学部附属明治新 闻杂志文库、早稻田大学图书馆等处搜集到在东京与大阪发行的锦绘新闻共 230 张，并 通过文本分析法，从媒介社会学的视角，在梳理锦绘新闻基本面貌的基础上，通过大量 文本探讨了锦绘新闻在版面和新闻制作及内容方面的近代性，并尝试分析了锦绘新闻呈 现过渡和桥梁性质的原因，以及它在日本报纸史上的地位和在日本社会近代化过程中的 作用。

    锦绘新闻采用木板印刷，制作周期较长，内容多为移植与再生产而来，主要报道社 会新闻，讲究新闻配图以凸显易读性和大众化，通过许多表扬、警示及启发性的新闻报 道，给读者以启蒙，承担了教化国民的责任;在绘画方面，锦绘新闻也表现出了近代 性。它讲究绘画技法、版面设计、颜色、图案及新闻可视化，版面具备易识别性和突出 性，简洁清晰且引人注目，拉近了报纸与读者的距离;在文本的语言方面，它采用了通 俗易懂的语言，使新闻更易读易懂，推进了报纸的普遍化。此外，锦绘新闻还介绍了西 方科技与近代学校，打开了解西方文明的一扇窗口。

    作为日本社会朝向近代化过渡时期诞生的媒体，锦绘新闻的出现是为了适应日本社 会转型与启蒙平民的需要而被推出的。不同于大报大量使用汉字而没有假名标注、对读 者阅读文化水平要求较高等特点，锦绘新闻采用了插画与假名标注方法，内容通俗易 懂，以教化读者为主，这为它走向大众读者奠定了基础。它一方面弥补大报的短板，向 公众传播新闻，另一方面促进了大众化报纸的鼻祖“小报”的创办，使日本报纸走向了 大众化，为日本新闻业近代化发展指引了新的方向。

    The Nishiki-e Shinbun (锦绘新新闻) was a novel news medium that combined the artistic style of Japanese Ukiyo-e with the journalistic elements of the modern newspaper during the transition period of Japanese journalism from traditional woodblock prints (newspapers in the Tokugawa period) to modernized newspapers. Therefore, this hybrid medium possessed the characteristics of both old-style Japanese newspapers and modernized newspapers and served as a bridge during the reformation.

    This paper collected 230 issues of the Nishiki-e Shinbun distributed in Tokyo and Osaka from the local resources such as the National Diet Library, the Meiji Shimbun Magazine Library of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University Library. By applying the text analysis, this study examined the primary characteristics of Nishiki-e Shinbun, exploring its modernity in terms of layout, news production, and content from a perspective of media sociology. Furthermore, the study aimed to analyze the reasons behind the transitional and bridging nature of Nishiki-e Shinbun, its status in the history of Japanese newspaper, as well as its role in the process of modernization in Japanese society.

    The Nishiki-e Shinbun relied on woodblock printing, resulting in a longer production cycle. Its contents were mostly based on transplantation and reproduction, with a focus on covering social news. The layout emphasized news illustration to enhance readability and appeal to the masses. Through a large number of commendable, cautionary and enlightening texts, Nishiki-e Shinbun sought to bring enlightenment to readers and assumed the responsibility of educating the public. In terms of drawing techniques, layout design, colors, patterns, and news visualization, Nishiki-e Shinbun demonstrated modernity with its recognizable, attention- grabbing, concise, and clear design, which brought newspapers closer to readers. Regarding language, Nishiki-e Shinbun adopted easy-to-understand language, making the news more readable and understandable, which promoted the universalization of newspapers. In addition, it exposed the nation to Western civilization by disseminating western technologies and modern school literature. It reported news about many commendations, warnings, inspirational and laying the foundation for public manners and modern Japanese thoughts.

    As a medium that emerged during Japan's transition to modernization, Nishiki-e Shinbun was created to adapt to the needs of Japan's social transformation and to enlighten the public. Unlike major newspapers, which used many Kanji (Japanese characters borrowed from Chinese) without kana annotation and required a higher level of reading culture from readers, Nishiki-e Shinbun utilized illustrations and kana annotation with its accessible and educational content, laying the foundation for Nishiki-e Shinbun to reach a mass audience. On the one hand, it made up for the shortcomings of major newspapers and disseminated news to the public, and on the other hand, it promoted the founding of tabloid newspapers, the originator of major newspapers, which led to the popularization of Japanese newspapers and set a new direction for the development of the Japanese newspaper industry.