Lot 168: Taguchi Yoshimori (1830-1884)

Taguchi Yoshimori (1830-1884)
Tenjiku Marukakoku no umare mezo no zu (Picture of female elephant born in Malacca in India)
Yellow ground, a female gray elephant, a rope around one leg, the trunk curled around a sheaf of hay on which she nibbles, five additional views depicted above with a man holding hay, signed Yoshimori ga and published by Hori Takichi--good impression, good color, soiled, stained, rubbed, minor pin hole worming, loss
oban tate-e: 36.2 x 24.3cm.