# kyosai

*Curator's 👀 no. 9* This print was published when a live elephant was shown to the public in Edo (today's Tokyo). drew elephants performing a trick with their trunk. One of them gives a tiger a sumō hold called ‘frog hook’ (kawazu-gake).

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Elephants represented things 'foreign' and 'exotic'. 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.

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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).

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