This is a hanging scroll depicting Fudomyo-o with three children. It has been painted on silk, not paper.
This Buddhist picture went missing around 1912, and its designation was changed from national treasure to an important cultural property several decades later, in 1950.
The work was re-discovered at the Museum for East Asian Art in Germany, but it was not returned to the temple because it had been acquired legally. A copy was placed on display in 2017, the first time since the original's disappearance 105 years earlier.
It was designated as an important cultural property in February 1904.