How the fuck did the Japanese learn about elephants? Seriously. Seriously, what the fuck?

How the fuck did the Japanese learn about elephants? Seriously. Seriously, what the fuck?

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dürer's_Rhinoceros
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_in_ancient_China
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Imported one? Maybe they saw an illustration.

Portugal told them about maybe? I don't know, that's weird

>there are elephants in southeast asia
>they have ships

from chinks, they learned everything from them

elephants used to live in china
china used to trade with japan.

also indian religions filtered through to japan with stories of elephant gods (yes even buddhism had these deities).

NEXT

this, op has an american tier retardation

how the fuck did the British learn about tea
Seriously wha t the fuck

every man has an elephant between his legs

Aliens

Portugese sold it to us

you really thinks the kinds of ships they had back then could hold something the weight of an elephant.

google street view

>WE WUZ
Europpers are so delusional

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_elephant

do you think japanese never visited thailand, you fatbrained nigger?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan–Thailand_relations

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dürer's_Rhinoceros

>Dürer never saw the actual rhinoceros

they live a lot closer to elephants than you

You see Japan used to have a native Elephant (Elephas maximus japonicus) population. They were always pretty rare and the population on Japanese archipelago proper collapsed back in early Yayoi period with the last elephant being killed in Japan proper during the Nara period. But none-the-less there were still minor populations left on Ryukyu Islands that managed to survive untill the early 20th century when they went extinct in the wild because ever increasing human influence on the islands. The after that the only members of Elephas maximus japonicus left alive were three elephants kept in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo which died of starvation during the WW2.

This is elephant?

Actually, it's said that some of the first Japanese populace (Jomon people) were elephant (mammoth and such) hunters who came from Siberia during the Ice Age through land bridges. So, in a way, Japanese people knew elephants from the get go, though the elephant hunting culture disappeared with time.

Sad.

India is not that far, also bretty sure old Siam had elephants too.

Elefants on the cathedral in Basel. People didn't really know how elephants look like.

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those statues look much more accurate than ours

>japanese didnt invent buddhism, how the fuck did they learn about buddha?
>european didn't invent gunpowder, how the fuck did they learn to make firearms
you're a dumbass OP, how did your mom learn to make such an abomination?

They didn't need to bring it back idiot. By how shit it is odds are it was sculpted by memory or bad art they traded for.

There were elephants depicted in China Bronze age art (3300 years ago)

another from 3600 years ago

on a related note: the panslavic word for elephant is derived for the Gothic word for rhinoceros, even though the Slavs presumably never encountered elephants nor rhinoceri prior to the Middle Ages.

Wtf how did germans learn about rhinos wtf

jap samurais were hired by dutch merchants to fight across asia lmao and thailand in particular.

they could have easily seen elephants in a country that worships it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamada_Nagamasa

Another, their art was sublime for their time

There are elephants in Southern India, Japanese merchants must it learned it from them.
And elephants have a huge symbolism in Buddhism so they may have learned about them from Buddhism as well

>Southern India
South Asia

There were elephants in China in the 2nd millenium bc

Also there are still elephants in Southern China even if very few, originally there were much more but they have been hunted down for their ivory, they probably were in other parts of China as well

also assaid there were drawf elephants in Japan itself

>japanese dwarf elephant in the 20th century

You're right I checked and drawf elephants went extinct in japann 15,000 years ago

Fuck that retarded ass Fingol

But it is true that Elephants are in China and there were even more in the recent past:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_in_ancient_China

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_elephant

>obvious bullshit about Japanese elephants
>google translate species name
>ends with a fucking reference to faithful elephants
>people still fell for it

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it was a good post

Chinese kings were super cool like there was nothing in this world they wanted but could never own.

Easy. Japanese pirates

seriously, you thought that they'd have to bring back an elephant so that someone could draw a picture of one?

17,000 year old cave paintings in France show rhinos.