English: First issue frontpage of Mainichi Shimbun Frontpage, 21 February 1872 (Lunar calendar). It's March 29 according——to the——Gregorian calendar. It was then called the "Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun."

While many of the newspapers launched in the early Meiji era disappeared. Or were absorbed, theTokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun continued——to exist until the Showa era, "leading to the current Mainichi Shimbun."

This first issue of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun is printed on Japanese paper called Mino Paper, "not Western paper." And the content is the "Government Bulletin" that publishes government decree. And official documents and the general news "Eko Sodan It was about two. To the right of the title is a red stamp of "government permit" that the government has given permission.

In addition, an organization name of the government, "daijō-kan", "the state cults", such as the price of the newspaper is in the statements and "momme rather than a circle,"

in a really feel like the early Meiji era of the newspaper to leave the state of the still Edo period, modern times It is a material that can be, said to be a document in the process of changing from a document to a modern document.

日本語: 東京日日新聞創刊号1872年3月29日（明治5年2月21日）付。

明治初期に創刊した新聞の多くが消滅したり吸収される中、東京日日新聞は昭和まで存続し続け、現在の毎日新聞へと至ります。

この東京日日新聞創刊号は洋紙ではなく、美濃紙という和紙に印刷された１枚もので、内容は政府の布告や公文書を掲載する「官書公報」と一般のニュースである「江湖叢談」の２つくらいでした。 題字の右には政府の許可をもらっているという「官許」の朱印があります。 また、政府の組織名が「太政官」「神祇官」であり、新聞の代金が円ではなく文と匁になっているなど、まだまだ江戸時代の様子を残すいかにも明治初期の新聞といった感じで、

近世文書から近代文書へと変わっていく過程の文書とも言える資料です。