Yu Kinro (Chinese: Yu Qianlou), from the series "Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Furyu Yamato nijushiko)""

A third sheet from the Furyu Yamato nijushiko (Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety) series in the Art Institute of Chicago, dated to about 1770 to 1772, this chuban print depicts Yu Kinro (Chinese: Yu Qianlou), the paragon who reportedly tasted his sick father's stool in order to diagnose the progress of his illness. Yu Qianlou is one of the more demanding episodes in the canon, and Edo artists generally treated it with the same elegant indirection they applied to the others, depicting filial devotion rather than its most visceral particulars. Koryusai's design transposes the figure into contemporary Edo dress, the connection to the canonical narrative carried by the print's title and by small attribute details rather than by explicit illustration. The fashionable parodic recasting is the entire point of the series.