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Choko and Chorei were two brothers who looked after their aged mother. One day Choko was bringing a cabbage home for their mother when he was set upon by robbers. Finding he had nothing to give them, they had decided to kill him but agreed to wait until he delivered the cabbage to his mother. His younger brother Chorei then came along, and offered his life in exchange for his brother's, as depicted in the upper panel of the print. Awed by such devotion, the robbers freed them both. (Henri Joly, Legend in Japanese Art, pp. 107.) The young boy in the lower panel appears to be the pampered one. A woman leads him by the hand under a full moon; flower petals drop around them from an unseen tree. The boy is elegantly dressed in a tasseled kimono with a black collar; he and the woman accompanying him are wearing western shoes with their traditional robes.
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