Toba Sōjō
Kakuyū, also known as Toba Sōjō for his priesthood, was a Japanese artist-monk, and the son of Minamoto no Takakuni.
Kakuyū was a high priest of Tendai Buddhism. He was advanced to sōjō in 1132 and then dai-sōjō in 1134.
In 1138, he became the 48th zasu.
He is commonly known as Toba Sōjō, because he lived in Shō-kongō'in, a temple funded by the imperial family and located at Toba, Kyoto.
Kakuyū was also an artist proficient in both Buddhism art and satirical cartoon and his work includes Fudōmyō'ō-ritsuzō at Daigo-ji, an Important Cultural Property of Japan.
Perhaps the most famous one is the picture scroll Chōjū-giga, a National Treasure of Japan and one of the earliest manga—however, this attribution has no proof and may be spurious.
