Mirror of 24 Paragons of Filial Piety: Dong Yong (Tō Ei)
about 1840
17.144
Not currently on view
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8-3/8 x 13-5/8 in. (image) 9-13/16 x 14-3/8 in. (sheet)
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Signed by artist: Ichiy^usai Kuniyoshi ga Publisher's mark: Jakurind^o (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.
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Gift of Eliza M. Niblack
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Asian Art (Japanese and Korean)
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Provenance
Eliza M. Niblack, Indianapolis, Indiana; given to the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1917.
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