The general idea of each virtue is explained by quoting expressions from "Shishogokyo" (the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism) or "Kokyo" (the Book of Filial Piety) and offering an interpretation of each of the two hundred ninety-nine Japanese and Chinese history cases along with sixty-two drawing.
その大意が説かれ四書五経や『孝経』などから語句を引用しつつ、日本・中国の歴史事例299話と図画62枚をもって解説が加えられている。