Passing the Bamboo Grove
1868–1912
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- 34.7 × 21.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-194289
The young woman in this print likely stands in for Meng Zong, one of the Chinese Twenty Four Paragons of Filial Piety. Legend has it he went out in the dead of winter to dig bamboo shoots for his aged parents. Harunobu designed a calendar print for the year 1765 with a more explicit allusion to the theme. It shows a young woman actively digging for bamboo shoots. The first state of this print was privately issued as a calendar print for 1766, with the months of the year depicted in the woman's sash. It was illegal to sell any type of calendar without a government license, and a second state w…
Provenance
Whittemore, 1930.176
Registry history
- 1868–1912 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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