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*Curator's 👀 no. 9* This print was published when a live elephant was shown to the public in Edo (today's Tokyo). #Kyosai drew elephants performing a trick with their trunk. One of them gives a tiger a sumō hold called ‘frog hook’ (kawazu-gake). #GoldmanCollection @royalacademy
Elephants represented things 'foreign' and 'exotic'. #Kyosai emphasised exoticism also in other details such as the Chinese and Western figures. The tricolour printing in the title cartouche indicates that this impression is one of the earliest. #GoldmanCollection @royalacademy
This print was published when a live elephant was shown to the public at Ryōgoku, Edo (today's Tokyo).#Kyosai depicted elephants performing a trick with its trunk. One of them gives a tiger a sumō wrestling hold called ‘frog hook’ (kawazu-gake). #GoldmanCollection @royalacademy