Twenty-four Instances of Filial Piety (Ehon nijūshi kō 絵本廿四孝)
An Edo-period Japanese woodblock picture book of 1774, printed in Edo by Iseya Jisuke and illustrated by Torii Kiyotsune, retelling twenty-four Chinese tales of filial piety for a general readership. The double-page spreads pair lines of kana text with colour-washed scenes of snow, willows, pine trees, thatched huts and courtyard houses. A designer could draw on its restrained earth-toned palette, flat ukiyo-e figure outlines and compact pictorial framing of landscape and domestic interiors.
