One of the very first kawaraban printed, depicting the autumn of Osaka Castle, seventeenth century Japanese newspapers started from the seventeenth century as yomiuri (読売、actually "to read through and sell") or kawaraban (瓦版, virtually "tile-block printing" referring to the usage of clay printing blocks), which ended up printed handbills https://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1003838960/tag/Uudet/view/html?t=Uudet%20ilmoitukset&cs=m