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The commentary on Ito Chuta's Sketch 366 titled "The Middle Class Weeps in Hunger" (餓に無く中流) by Shimada Saburō (島田三郎), signing as Shōnan (沼南) uses a well-known quote from Analects 16.1 reading, I believe: 有國有家者不患寡 而患不均不患貧而 患不安蓋均無貧和 無寡安無傾 ("Those who govern states or lead great families do not worry about scarcity, but rather about inequality; they do not worry about poverty, but rather about instability. For where there is equality, there is no poverty; where there is harmony, there is no scarcity; and where there is stability, there is no danger of collapse." [See link below] I could use help in confirming the transcription of the introduction to this quote reading (I think): 總額増加せらるも分配合を失へは却て危殆を招かん and the final lines possibly reading 彩毫一揮孔聖治世の訓誡を表示して遺憾無き才筆???かふ. (end of last line is giving me problems.) My best, Irwin

總額増加するも分配品を失へは却て危殆を招かん

Sōgaku zōka suru mo bunpaihin wo ushinaeba kaette
kitai wo manekan

Though the total sum may increase, losing the distributed goods would only invite serious situation.

彩毫一揮孔聖治國の訓戒を表示して遺憾無し才筆ふるかな
沼南

Saigō ikki kōsei chikoku no kunkai wo hyōji shite
ikan nashi saihitsu furu ka na
Shōnan

With a single stroke of the brush, Confucius's admonition for governing the state is displayed　－　no regret remains, how splendidly the talented brush is wielded.
Shōnan

Seal,
島田三郎　Simada Saburo

His pen-name was Shōnan

Regards,
I.Nagy

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