Mirror of 24 Paragons of Filial Piety: Dong Yong (Tō Ei), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1798-1861), Edo, about 1840, color woodblock print, 8-3/8 x 13-5/8 in. (image) 9-13/16 x 14-3/8 in. (sheet), Signed by artist: Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga Publisher's mark: Jakurindō (Wakasa-ya Yoichi) Inscribed: Dong Yong. Too poor to be able to bury his father, he sold himself [to obtain the funds]. On his way home from the burial he met a beautiful woman on the street. Following her instructions he went home with her and in the course of a month she wove two hundred bolts of silk to repay [Dong Yongs] debt to
Mirror of 24 Paragons of Filial Piety: Dong Yong (Tō Ei), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1798-1861), Edo, about 1840, color woodblock print, 8-3/8 x 13-5/8 in. (image) 9-13/16 x 14-3/8 in. (sheet), Signed by artist: Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga Publisher's mark: Jakurindō (Wakasa-ya Yoichi) Inscribed: Dong Yong. Too poor to be able to bury his father, he sold himself [to obtain the funds]. On his way home from the burial he met a beautiful woman on the street. Following her instructions he went home with her and in the course of a month she wove two hundred bolts of silk to repay [Dong Yongs] debt to his master and after, she flew up to the heavens from where she had been sent to help Dong Yong because of his filial heart., series, Mirror of 24 Filial Youths (Nijūshikō dōji Kagami), Asian Art
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