Japanese Print "Reading by the Moon - Zi Luo # 57" by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Artist:Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title:Reading by the Moon - Zi Luo # 57
Date:1888.
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Source:artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description:
"Tsuki Hyakushi; Dokusho no Tsuki" (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon; Reading by the Moon) Zi Luo (jp. Shiraku) was a disciple of Confucius and one of China's Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety. His family was poor and he was self-educated. Here, he travels long distance to bring his parents a sack of rice, a luxury, over his shoulder.
