Meng Zong, from the series Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1765, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm); W. 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm), Prints, Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770), Harunobu treated a popular paragon theme with great innovation here, applying the playfully subversive spirit of ukiyo-e to the story of Meng Zong (J.: Mōsō), a boy whose filial piety prompted heaven to cause the sprouting of spring bamboo shoots in the dead of winter for his ill mother
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Meng Zong, series Twenty-four Paragons, Filial Piety, Edo period, 1615–1868, ca, 1765, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print, ink, color, paper, H, 11 1/8, 28.3 cm, W, 8 3/8, 21.3, Prints, Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese, 1725–1770, Harunobu treated, popular paragon, theme, great innovation, applying, playfully subversive, spirit, ukiyo-e, story, J, Mōō, boy, filial piety, prompted, heaven, cause, sprouting, spring bamboo, shoots, dead, winter, ill mother
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