“It is also written to uphold the reputation of the Western conjuror against the spurious ascendancy held by his Eastern confrere.”

“Now, we only have to follow the example of virtue bequeathed by our venerated confrere.”

“Hiroshige is said to have first applied to the school of the more popular artist Utagawa Toyokuni, a confrere of Toyohiro.”

“Sometimes it requires a crisis to sort out those fitted for leadership from their confreres inclined to dash around in a blind funk.”

“They have witnessed the comings and goings of confreres and candidates in the first house and now in the current one.”

“Perhaps, my dear confreres, you think that a man is truly humble and has really abased himself when he has taken the last place.”