Artist: Tōensai Kanshi
Date: 701
Size: 85.5cm x 34.0cm
Technique: Paper
This painting parodies the classical Chinese story of Meng Zong (Japanese: Mōsō), one of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety, who faithfully tended the needs of his ailing mother. In the middle of winter, Meng"s mother requested he prepare a meal of bamboo shoots for her. His deep devotion was acknowledged and rewarded by the gods as he found copious amounts of fresh bamboo emerging through a heavy layer of snow.In this painting, Kanshi has replaced Meng with a young woman, wearing a straw cape and large hat to protect her from the snow falling steadily in large flakes. Her hand to her cheek, she smiles with a slightly surprised expression as bamboo shoots push through the snow in a ring at her feet.
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