'Mother Meng's Teaching' by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, ca. 1882. From the series 'Brocade Pictures for Moral Education', produced to accompany a book by Yamana Tomesaburo. This image is also available on:
This picture illustrates a story from the life of the Chinese philosopher Meng Ke (known in the West as Mencius). As the story goes, when Meng Ke was a young boy his mother moved to a house next to a school so her son would get a good education. One day she caught him playing truant, and to show him the error of his ways she took a pair of scissors and cut the cloth she had been weaving in half, demonstrating the folly of investing time and effort into something only to leave it half-done. Mother Meng is an important figure in Chinese culture in her own right, and is often held up as an example of an example of an ideal mother for her wisdom and her devotion to her son's education.
The late 19th century was a period of incredibly rapid economic and social change in Japan, and for the first time education became available outside the elite. Ukiyo-e artists like Yoshitoshi, who is better known for his prints showing popular Japanese history and folklore, didn't fail to capitalize on the growing market for educational materials among the aspirational middle classes.
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