Kōzan-ji 高山寺
It keeps the frog and rabbit scrolls, which in Japan are called the ancestor of manga.
A mountain temple in the Takao woods, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It holds the *Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga*, the ‘satirical drawings of animals and people’: four scrolls painted in ink in which frogs, rabbits and monkeys behave like humans, and which in Japan are considered the ancestor of comics. Within the grounds is the tea field that the monk Myōe planted in the thirteenth century with seeds he had received from the monk Eisai, and which the temple states is the oldest in Japan; the tea is picked in mid-May.
Kyoto
Toganoo, Meotobashi
