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However, towards the end of the next year the elephant become ill. A nearby horse doctor had him warmed and gave him medicine, and another one used acupuncture and hot irons on his nails (presumably the large-animal equivalent of moxa treatment), but he died a few days later. The shogunate took his hide, but Gensuke took his bones. He and those after him tried to make money by displaying them, but it did not work too well. In 1779 the bones were sold to a temple, but they were lost in a fire during the [[Boshin War]].

However, towards the end of the next year the elephant become ill. A nearby horse doctor had him warmed and gave him medicine, and another one used acupuncture and hot irons on his nails (presumably the large-animal equivalent of moxa treatment), but he died a few days later. The shogunate took his hide, but Gensuke took his bones. He and those after him tried to make money by displaying them, but it did not work too well. In 1779 the bones were sold to a temple, but they were lost in a fire during the [[Boshin War]].

==References==

==References==

*Murase, Miyeko, ed., ''Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan,'' New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art,  2003.

*Murase, Miyeko, ed., ''Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan,'' New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art,  2003.

*Ôta Naohiro 太田尚宏, 享保の渡来象始末記 (The complete account of the elephant that came from abroad in the Kyôhô Era), in Takeuchi Makoto 竹内誠, et al., ed., 江戸時代の古文書を読む:享保の改革 (Reading Edo-Period Documents: The Kyôhô Reforms), Tokyo-Dô, 2004.

*Ôta Naohiro 太田尚宏, 享保の渡来象始末記 (The complete account of the elephant that came from abroad in the Kyôhô Era), in Takeuchi Makoto 竹内誠, et al., ed., 江戸時代の古文書を読む:享保の改革 (Reading Edo-Period Documents: The Kyôhô Reforms), Tokyo-Dô, 2004.

*''[[They Came to Japan]]''

*[[Michael Cooper]] (ed.), ''[[They Came to Japan]]: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640'', University of California Press, 1965.

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