At the top of this "news nishiki-e" is a banner held aloft by two cherubs containing the name of the sponsoring newspaper, the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbun 東京日々新聞.  In this print, Japanese celebrate detente with China over the killings of Ryukyuan fishermen who shipwrecked on Taiwan.¹

This nishiki-e was published to celebrate the agreement signed between the governments of Japan and the Qing Dynasty of China concerning Taiwan, which a Japanese expeditionary force had partly occupied in order to punish some Taiwanese who had killed a number of shipwrecked Okinawans. The picture shows the Japanese flag raised, geisha dancing, and men toasting the end of what some Taiwanese and Chinese call the First Sino-Japanese War.²

For a summary of the brief life of nishiki-e shinbun (newspaper color woodblock prints) see the article Nishiki-e shinbun and Newspapers in Meiji Japan.

¹ website of William Wetherall www.nishikie.com 
² Ibid.

The Writer Tentendō Shujin 転々堂 主人

Sources: website of William Wetherall http://www.nishikie.com/almanac/Almanac_whos_who.html

The writer for this print is identified as Tentendo Shujin, a pen name for the writer better known as Takabatake Ransen 高畠藍泉 (1838-1885).  His birth name was Takabatake Heisaburo 高畠瓶三郎.

Takabatake Ransen was a gesaku writer and journalist who joined Tokyo nichinichi shinbun shortly after its start in 1872. He collaborated with Yoshiiku launching the illustrated Hiragana eiri shinbun in 1875.

Japanese Transcription of Text

Source: University of Tokyo website http://t4.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/archives/digital_archives/ono_collection/contents/item.6.N040.html [note: website is no longer active]

吾邦（わがくに）清国（しな）と和議（わぎ）なりし。吉報（きつぽう）を得（え）て喜悦（よろこび）の眉（まゆ）を開（ひら）くや
さくらの人。串度（くしど）某氏ハ一家親戚（しんせき）朋友（ほういう）等を招集（うちつど）ひ。旭章（ひのまる）の
国旗（はた）を屋内に飾（かざ）り。宴（ゑん）を設（まふ）けて愉快（ゆくわい）を極め。凱歌（がいか）に換（かへ）る
花走唄（はやりうた）。 （てをうつ） て舞ふ慶賀（けいが）の声ハ。
四百余洲の果（はて）へも響（ひび）かん。
転々堂主人記

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#408
Title or Description	Showing the Flag (八百四十九号 No. 849)
Newspaper	Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbun  東京日々新聞
Artist	Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833-1904)
Signature	Keisai Yoshiiku (恵斎芳幾)
Seal	芳幾 Yoshiiku (see above)
Writer of Text	Tentendō Shujin
Publication Date	November 12, 1874
Publisher	Gusokuya Kahei 具足屋嘉兵衛, [Marks: pub. ref. 085; seal ref. 24-031] seal reading: top: 人形町 Ningyōchō bottom: 具足屋 Gusokuya
Carver	Watanabe Horiei 渡辺彫栄
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	poor- unrepaired wormholes throughout, partially backed, trimmed to image top and bottom
Genre	ukiyo-e; nishiki-e shinbun
Miscellaneous
Format	vertical oban
H x W Paper	13 x 9 1/4 in. (33 x 23.5 cm)
Literature
Collections This Print	Waseda University Library 10 08059 0025; The University of Tokyo Digital Archives Ono Hideo Collection N040; Tokyo Metropolitan Library 008-029-16; ARC 国会109-03-038; Hagi Uragami Museum U01166