Toba Sōjō
Image:Chouju sumou.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Animals sumo wrestling on the first scroll of Chōjū-giga
Image:Bakemono Tobyo.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Creature taken from Bakemono-zukushi
Kakuyū, also known as Toba Sōjō in his priesthood, was a Japanese artist-monk, and the son of Minamoto no Takakuni.
Biography
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.
As an artist
Kakuyū was also an artist proficient in both Buddhist 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.
His works are held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.