Newly Imported Great Elephant (Shinto hakurai no daizō)

A large gray elephant with a red-and-white tusked trunk dominates the diptych, standing on green ground and eating a bundle of straw held in its trunk. At left, a European man in a dark uniform and cap prods the elephant's hindquarters with a stick while a dark-skinned attendant in a red jacket and yellow trousers sweeps behind it with a broom; at right, a European woman in a full blue hooped skirt and red bonnet stands beside a child in a green coat and red cap, both watching the animal. Columns of Japanese text fill the tan upper background, framed by a red title cartouche in the upper right corner.