This work is based on a remake and further adaptation of a picture book created during my third year study.This picture book tells a story of rediscovering one’s original intentions through the disappearance and eventual return of the elephant.

The original story <The elephant vanishes>-which written byHaruki Murakami,follows from the protagonist’s point of view, the keeper and the elephant who disappears overnight.Puzzled, the protagonist and his friend engage in a great deal of abstract dialogue, and in the end, no one knows where the Vanished elephant and keeper went.In my opinion, the attitude of humans toward the elephant in the book,i.e.the questioning that arises between the superego and the ego. When the superego begins to avoid the needs of the ego, that is to say, when people conform to reality and forget the original mind,the ‘elephant’ representing the original mind will disappear.

The story tells of a fantastical world where everyone is born with an elephant. As the girl grows up, she notices that the elephants belonging to those around her are gradually disappearing one by one, yet no one seems to take it seriously. So the girl sets off on a journey to find the elephants, only to discover in the end that not only has she failed to find her friends’ elephants, but she cannot find her own either. It was then that her friends noticed her distress and revealed the truth behind the elephants’ disappearance: the elephants had not vanished entirely, but had become part of each person’s character and personality as they grew up. Encouraged by her friends, the girl regained her motivation, and unbeknownst to her, the elephant was quietly hiding within her own shadow.