19th century wooden netsuke of a man wearing a wide round hat and a straw coat with a hoe in his hands and carrying a large bamboo shoot on his back. Netsuke illustrates one of the paragons of filial virtue, that of Moso - a young scholar who went into the snow to look for bamboo shoots, a favorite dish of his ailing and dying mother. Bamboo does not grow in the snow, but the Gods were moved by his filial piety and allowed bamboo shoots to suddenly spring from the ground...

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