Title : Under Cover - Nijushiko Mitate E Awase

Artist : Toyohara Chikanobu

Date : 1890.

Details : Toyohara Chikanobu: Under Cover - Nijushiko Mitate E Awase - Artelino

Source : artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description : Nijushiko Mitate E Awase" (Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety Parodied) No.10. Yen-tsze ( Enshi in Japanese) covered himself with a deer hide so that he could get milk from a deer. His mother suffered from an eye disease for which the deer's milk was the only remedy. One day, while he was under his deer skin, he was almost killed by a group of hunters. After they heard his story, they let him go free.

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