Title
Moon of the filial son - Ono no Takamura, from the series One hundred aspects of the moon
1889
Artist
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Details
- Alternative title
- kōshi no tsuki - Ono no Takamura
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan
- Date
- 1889
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodblock; ōban
- Dimensions
- 39.0 x 26.0 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated.
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 258.2012.80
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Works in the collection
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About
Ono no Takamura served as a high-ranking official at the court of Emperor Saga in the ninth century. Renowned as a poet and calligrapher, Takamura was also often praised as a model of filial piety and generosity. He tended to share his stipends with relatives and friends who were more in need than him and showed great respect to his parents. The iconography could also refer to Ceng Shen, an important disciple of Confucius, who is credited with the compilation of the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety. Legend has it that Ceng was gathering brushwood in the forest one day when he had the premonition that his mother needed him. He hurried home to find that she had missed him so much she had bit her finger hard in vexation.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Yoshitoshi: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2016–20 Nov 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Yuriko Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi Tsuki hyakushi (Yoshitoshi’s One hundred aspects of the moon), Tokyo, 2010. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One hundred aspects of the moon, Seattle, 1992, (colour illus.). cat.no.80; Another edition was reproduced
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Chris UHLENBECK, Yoshitoshi: masterpieces from the Ed Freis collection, Leiden, 2011, 135-136. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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