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Original green silk folding book. 35 woodblock prints of 58 from the Kyodo risshiki or the Instructive Models of Lofty Ambition. Double page title page print. Wear to edges, fading to boards, lacking paper title label on front board, lacking table of contents sheet. Blue bordering to prints. Book separated along fold, separating to several additional folds . Soiling and occasional spotting to prints. Musty smell. Six of the seven artists are present in this book are Kobayashi Kiyochika [11 of 20 prints], Mizuno Toshikata; [9 of 16 prints], Inoue Tankei (Yasuji); [10 of 13 prints], Taiso (Tsukioka) Yoshitoshi [ 3 of 5 prints] Toyohara Kunichika [1 print], and Hachisuka (Utagawa) Kuniaki II [1 print]. Lacking any prints by Yoshu Chikanobu. A fair copy. This series ran between October 1885 and November 1890 and featured a long list of heroes and heroines, from antiquity to contemporary times, who were regarded as standards of moral leadership and self-realization. Brief texts contained within a scroll-like cartouche appearing on each print provide historical details. The scroll composer's name is given at the end of the scroll text. The lofty ambition of the title is a Confucian concept, originally from Mencius, meaning righteous determination that would inspire others. The market for the series probably included former samurai, ambitious youth, and conservative intellectuals. Contents with numbers given prints: Print number 45: Fukuchi Gen'ichiro, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1885.; Unnumbered print: Sanjo Sanetomi, Mizuno Toshikata, 1890; Unnumbered print: Kido Suikoin; Mizuno Toshikata, 1890; Print number 8: Chodensu, Inoue Yasuji, 1886; Print number 11: Hotoke Gozen, Inoue Yasuji, 1885; Print number 22: Story of The Soga Brothers, Inoue Yasuji, 1889 reissue; Unnumber print: Oishi Yoshio, Mizuno Toshikata, 1890; Print number 27: Mori Shojumaru , Inoue Yasuji, 1889; Print number 40: Tomochidori, Utagawa Kuniaki II, 1886; Print number 39: Butsu Sorai, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1886; Print number 29: Yamanochi Kazutoyo no tsuma, Mizuno Toshikata, 1888; Print number 37: Shushiki, Toyohara Kunichika, 1885; Print number 36: Katagiri Shoichi (Katagiri Katsumoto), Mizuno Toshikata, 1888; Print number 43: Arai Hakuseki, Mizuno Toshikata, 1888; Print number 34: Toyotomi Hideyasu, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1886; Print number 33: Hashiba Hideyoshi, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885; Print number 19: Aoto Fujitsuna, Inoue Yasuji, 1885; Print number 35 Hosokawa Yusai, Kiyochika Kobayashi, 1886; Print number 32: Oda Nobunaga, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1885; Print number 25: Takemitsu Kikuchi, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1886; Print number 26: Kusunoki Masatsura, Mizuno Toshikata, 1888; Print number 21: Kusunoki Masashige, Mizuno Toshikata, 1888; Print number 3: Ono-no Tofu, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1886; Print number 9: Fujiwara Arihira, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885; Print number 21 [22]: Murakami Yoshiteru, Inoue Yasuji, 1885; Unnumbered print: Tango no Tsubone, Mizuno Toshikata, 1890; Print number 4: Dainagon Yukinari, Inoue Yasuji, 1886; Print number 15: Shizuka Gozen, Inoue Yasuji, 1885; Print number 6: Akazome Emon, Inoue Yasuji, 1886; Print number 10: Emperor Takakura's Palace Servants, Inoue Yasuji, 1886; Print number 5: Koshikibu no Naishi, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1886; Print number 12: Sugawara no Michizane, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1889; Print number 12: Kesa Gozen, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1885; Print number 7: Minamoto no Yoshiie, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1886; Print number 1: Ikina, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885.
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