About This Book
Volume two of a six volume set of moral instruction textbooks designed for young children titled
Nishiki-e shūshindan 錦絵修身談, Brocade Pictures for Moral Education. Each volume contained from one to three color woodblock prints by one of the most popular artists of the time Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), who also designed the black and white illustrations that accompanied the short stories written by
Yamana Tomesaburō, based upon the morally illustrative actions of adults and children from Japan, China and the West.
This volume contains three color woodblock prints by Yoshitoshi titled The Loyalty of Kusunoki Masashige 楠正成の忠, Wang Lan Harmony Between Siblings 王覧の悌 and The Benevolence of Harry Lane エリーレーンの仁 which are shown below along with the all the pages in the textbook. This volume contains fifteen short stories and eight black and white illustrations.
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| The Loyalty of Kusunoki Masashige 楠正成の忠
| Wang Lan Harmony Between Siblings 王覧の悌 |
| The Benevolence of Ellie? Lane エリーレーンの仁 | 山名留三郎
[Yamana Tomesaburō]
辻敬之 編輯
[Tsuji Keiji editor]
増川蚶雄
[Masukawa Kanyū] (story 1) (一) 杯の水芳名（ヨキナ） を千歳に遺す |
(story 2)
(二) 孝子食を路（ミチ）
に乞ふて其の情を達す
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(story 3) (三) 狗主人の為に盗（ヌスビト） を看顕（ミアラワ）す |
(story 4) |
(story 5)
(五) 旅人楓樹の下に憩ふ
Travelers Under Maple Trees | (story 6) |  (story 7) |
| (story 8) | | (story 9) If children obey and listen to their father, they will become good persons |
(story 10)
Honesty is always rewarded by men or gods | (story 11) | (story 12)
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| | (story 13) | (story 14) (十四) 馬主人の言辞に感じて 身命を委てこれを救ふ The Horse that Saved Its Master by Sacrificing itself after it Understood Its Master’s Words |
| (story 15) | (story 15 continued and colophon) Colophon info: 明治十五年三日一日板權免許
Meiji 15th year, 3rd month, 1st day publishing rights license [permit]
編輯人 山名留三郎 Editor Yamana Tomesaburō
編輯人 増川蚶雄 Editor Masukawa Kanyū
編輯兼出版人 辻敬之 Editor and Publisher Tsuji Keiji
出版發兌 普及舎 Publication Fukyūsha
| 普及舍發兌書目 catalog of the publisher's books |
Book Details
| IHL Catalog | #1539 |
| Title | Nishiki-e Shūshindan 錦絵修身談 巻二
(Brocade Pictures for Moral Education; also seen translated as Instructive Stories in Color Prints and Color Prints of Stories for Moral Education)
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| Author | Yamana Tomesaburō 山名留三郎 |
| Editor | Masukawa Kanyū 増川蚶雄 |
Artist
| Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
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Signatures of Artist
| left to right:
大蘇芳年画 Taiso Yoshitoshi ga with 大蘇 Taiso seal (Loyalty of Kusunoki Masashige)
芳年画 Yoshitoshi ga with 大蘇 Taiso seal (Wang Lan Harmony Between Siblings)
應需芳年\画 Ōju Yoshitoshi ga with 大蘇 Taiso seal (The Benevolence of Harry Lane)
芳年画 Yoshitoshi ga [typical on all black and white illustrations] |
| Seal of Artist | 大蘇 Taiso as shown above |
| Date | March 1882 |
| Publisher | 辻敬之 普及舎 Tsuji Keiji of Fukyūsha |
| Carver |  Enkatsu tō 円活刀 [full name Enkatsu Noguchi] All three color prints carry this carver seal |
| Impression | good
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| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | fair - wormage throughout |
| Genre | ehon 絵本; ōraimono 往来物 (elementary school textbook); kyōiku nishikie |
| Miscellaneous | The stamped seal of Ōmiya Elementary School appearing on the upper right of the first page of text.
大宮尋常小學校典籍之印
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| Format | fukurotoji binding; the three color prints bound into the front of the book are horizontal aiban-size folded in half for insertion |
| H x W Book | 8 13/16 x 5 7/8 in. (22.4 x 14.9 cm) |
| Collections This Print | National Diet Library call no. 特35-408; Minneapolis Institute of Art 2017.106.255.3 |
| Reference Literature |
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last revision:
3/23/2020
1/30/2019 (created)
