Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga

Choju-jinbutsu-giga, commonly translated as Scrolls of Frolicking Animals and Humans, is a set of four Japanese picture scrolls, or emakimono, belonging to the Buddhist temple Kozan-ji in Kyoto. The scrolls, painted mostly in ink on paper and read right to left in the traditional East Asian manner, depict rabbits, monkeys, frogs and other animals engaged in playful, satirical scenes that mimic human activities such as wrestling, bathing and religious ceremonies. Traditionally attributed in part to the monk-painter Toba Sojo, though stylistic evidence suggests more than one artist worked on the four scrolls over time, the work is often credited as an early ancestor of Japanese manga and is held today between the Kyoto National Museum and the Tokyo National Museum. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/