Forgetting Filial Piety

ca. 1781

Not on view

A rainy morning outside the licensed pleasure quarters further delays a disheveled young man who nonchalantly brushes his teeth while his companion and her maids look on with barely concealed impatience. The inscription, "Forget not your parents' love; respect the virtue of filial piety," is in satiric contrast to the scene, which in other circumstances might indeed reflect a family at its morning routine.

Torii Kiyonaga, the last influential artist of the Torii school, painted graceful, stylish figures in the late eighteenth century.

Artwork Details

Title: Forgetting Filial Piety
Artist: Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: ca. 1781
Culture: Japan
Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: H. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); W. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914
Object Number: JP920
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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