読よみ売うり

noun

Yomiuri (newspaper group)

Refers to the Yomiuri Shimbun and its affiliated media group. A proper noun in modern usage.

• 読よみ売うり新しん聞ぶんは日本にほんで最もっとも発はっ行こう部ぶ数すうの多おおい新しん聞ぶんの一ひとつです。

  The Yomiuri Shimbun is one of the newspapers with the largest circulation in Japan.

noun

yomiuri (Edo-period single-page newspaper); kawaraban

Historical term for a type of cheap, single-sheet newspaper sold by hawkers in the Edo period. Often synonymous with 瓦版.

See also: 瓦版

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、読よみ売うりと呼よばれる瓦かわら版ばんが街まち角かどで売うられていた。

  In the Edo period, single-page newspapers called yomiuri were sold on street corners.