Min Ziqian (Japanese: Binshiken) endured his cruel stepmother's mistreatment without complaint — wearing thin reed-flower stuffing in his winter coat while his half-brothers wore warm cotton — and when his father discovered the deception, Min begged him to keep his stepmother rather than see three children go cold. This oban keyblock proof (c. 1842) from the "Mirror for Children" series preserves the composition before color printing: the confident outline reveals Kuniyoshi's design at its clearest.
Min Ziqian (Binshiken), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)" was created by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) in c. 1842.
Yes — Min Ziqian (Binshiken), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)" is part of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami) series by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
Min Ziqian (Binshiken), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)" depicts children and daily life.
