Passing the Bamboo Grove

1868–1912 Sheet: 34.7 x 21.3 cm (13 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.) Source image
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The young woman in this print likely stands in for Meng Zong, one of the Chinese Twenty Four Paragons of Filial Piety. Legend has it he went out in the dead of winter to dig bamboo shoots for his aged parents. Harunobu designed a calendar print for the year 1765 with a more ex...

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