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Description
In print #6 Chikanobu has inverted the filial piety narratives: Cui Nanshan’s young wife Lady Tang willing suckles her husband’s great grandmother, who has no teeth, but in the Japanese scene, a mother attracts her baby son to come nurse. The settings are similar with a porch open to the garden, and in both images a third person, a young girl, observes how her mother willing offers breast milk to those who need it. Thus the moral has changed from merely taking care of the elderly to caring for one’s entire family.
Women Children (people by age group) Elderly Kimonos Fans (costume accessories) Porches Gardens Japanese maple Lanterns (lighting devices) Ukiyo-e Print
Time Period
Meiji (Japan, 1869-1912)
Source
Woodcuts; Ink on Paper; 14 5/8 in. x 9 13/16 in. (37.2 cm x 24.9 cm);accession number 2004.1.1
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