Art Institute of Chicago
True Image of a Giant Elephant (Taizo shasei)
Utagawa Yoshikata
- Date
- 1863
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban triptych
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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