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
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