The Japanese Spirit by Yoshisaburo Okakura: “The Hsiao King, or the 'Sacred Book of Filial Piety,' which is supposed to record conversations held between Confucius and his disciple Tsang Ts'an on that weighty subject, has the following passage:”
The Book of the Dead by Orikuchi Shinobu: “They say she was copying the Amida Sutra a thousand times before she left home, that she had practised on the Treatise on Yue Yi and her brother's chronicle of Gangōji, and that she learned the Classic of Filial Piety when she was this small. [auto-translated]”
The Golden Demon by Ozaki Kōyō: “"Some rebellion broke out, and someone petitioned the throne: no need to send an army, just send one general to the river and have him read the Classic of Filial Piety to the rebels, and they will vanish on their own. You laugh at that, but Yusa is in all earnest reading the Classic of Filial Piety, bled every other month by a lender who… [auto-translated]”