Danica Davidson
August 18, 2025 
Peach John is a Japanese company that makes women’s clothing, including lingerie. They’ve offered otaku-inspired lingerie in the past, including for Pokémon and One Piece Film: Red. Now they’ve made lingerie and a shirt for the first scroll in what’s considered the oldest example of manga.
If you’re not familiar with it, the Choju-Jinbutsu-Giga (translated as “Caricatures of Animals and Humans”) is a medieval set of scrolls showing anthropomorphized critters like rabbits and frogs doing everything from frolicking to praying. It’s widely referred to as the very first manga, and an influence on manga today.
The Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo explains:
“Most of the mangaesque action is found on the first of the four scrolls; the others feature somewhat more prosaic images of animals (horses, hens, cows, dogs) behaving like normal animals, or realistically portrayed human figures. Throughout, the economical lines of the sumi ink brushwork are exquisite. Some of the scrolls are drawn with a meticulous hand, while others are much sketchier, and it is obvious that more than one artist was responsible. No one knows who they were; legend attributes all four scrolls to a single Buddhist priest, but scholars suspect they are the work of a number of Imperial Court painters letting off steam. Further muddying the waters is the fact that over the centuries the scrolls have been cut up and reassembled in different sequences. One of the most intriguing features of the Suntory exhibit is its painstaking reconstruction, mainly from later replicas, of what the original scrolls must have looked like.”
Here is what the lingerie looks like.
They likewise have lingerie based on the famous folding screen painting showing the Wind God and Thunder God, which was created by Ogata Korin. Take a look.
They’re not just making lingerie about Japanese art, though, as they additionally are coming out with lingerie stylized after Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night.
There are also sheer T-shirts of each of these themes.
Source: SoraNews24
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
