Le Loup plaidant contre le Renard par devant le Singe (The Wolf Pleading Against the Fox Before the Monkey), from Choix de fables de La Fontaine illustrées par un groupe des meilleurs artistes de Tokio

Le Loup plaidant contre le Renard par devant le Singe (The Wolf Pleading Against the Fox Before the Monkey) is a color woodblock print designed by Okakura Shūsui for the 1894 Choix de fables de La Fontaine, the Tokyo-Paris illustrated book directed by Pierre Barboutau. La Fontaine's fable describes a court case in which a wolf accuses a fox of theft and a monkey acts as judge; the monkey, recognizing that neither is honest, condemns both. Shūsui's composition arranges the three animals as a small forest court with the monkey seated in judgment between the wolf and the fox, all three drawn in the closely outlined Kanō-school manner he had learned under Kanō Hōgai. The plate is signed in the lower margin as "Oka-Koura-Shiou-Soui" and was printed in color woodblock at the Tsukiji-Tokyo workshop. The image is reproduced from the BNF-Gallica scan of the 1894 first edition, in the public domain.