The Picture Order of Chōjū giga Identified

In the restoration report ‘Chōjū giga Shūri kara mietekita sekai’ (Kyoto National Museum ed.), it reported that the reordering of the pictures in the Kō scroll of the National Treasure, Chōjū jinbutsu giga (so-called Chōjū giga), from Kōzanji temple in Kyoto City, had been identified by brush marks on the paper. The restoration, starting in 2009, discovered that the 23^rd paper and the 11^th paper would have been connected, which was identified by streaks made when the papers were stroked with a brush during the papermaking process. Furthermore, it had been believed that the Kō scroll might have been divided into two scrolls: the 1^st to the 10^th papers and the 11^th to the 23^rd papers, due to difference in style. However, it was confirmed that those two potential scrolls have different paper qualities, raising the possibility that the Kō scroll might have been formed by combining the two scrolls. (Japanese)