These beautiful carvings are located on the front of the Kamijinko Kyozo (上神庫, "Kamijinko warehouse"). It is one of the three sacred storehouses in the Tosho-gu complex which hold costumes and equipment for the Togyosai Festival, a procession during which the Mikoshi (神輿, "portable shrines") are carried to Futarasan Jinja (二荒山神社). The carvings represent elephants the way the chief painter (Kanō Tan'yū 狩野探幽, 1602-1674)― who had never seen one himself ― imagined.
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