A moral lesson on the evils of alcohol

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Kōfu sake wo tachite issei no kuwauju to naru ["To become a world-famous scholar after renouncing alcohol"]

[Kobayashi], Toshikazu [illustrated by]; [Tominaga], Toshichika [corrected by].

Tōkyō: Tsuji Keiji: Fukyū sha, Meiji 21 [1888]. "Later printing".

A woodblock-printed supplement to the Nishiki-e shūshindan ("Brocade pictures for moral education") series of texts for primary school students. The books, produced by Fukyū-sha, collected moral stories from the West, China, and Japan. This particular illustration accompanies the fourteenth story in volume five, found on leaf twenty-five, which relates the tale of one [Hugh] Miller, perhaps the Scottish geologist, who supposedly renounced alcohol and achieved academic acclaim as a result of his subsequent studies.

One ōban leaf, complete. Light discolouration to extremities, a few small marks, partial repair to small wormhole in the upper left. Part of the Nishiki-e Shūshindan series. 36 x 24.5 cm.

A moral lesson on the evils of alcohol
Price: $385.00 (USD)