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Stand-in Fugen

Kitao Masayoshi

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image depicts a woman wearing a traditional Japanese kimono, riding an elephant. The woman's kimono is predominantly black with red and blue accents. The kimono has a white collar and a blue and red obi with a floral pattern. The woman sits atop the elephant with her back to the viewer, her head turned to the left. Her dark hair is styled in a bun on top of her head. The elephant is light gray with a long trunk and large ears. It faces left. The background is a light beige color with darker beige and gray shading around the elephant. There are four small red symbols and four small black symbols in a vertical line on the bottom right. The image has a thin brown border and a thicker border with a black and tan striped pattern. The title of the image is "Stand-in Fugen" by Kitao Masayoshi.

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451 × 900 px
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