At the same time, there were some emakimono created with different patterns than the above, such as "Choju Jinbutsu Giga" which had no text, but pictures only, and "Kegonshu Soshi Eden" (pictorial biographies of the founders of the Kegon sect) that contained 'spoken lines' beside some characters in a scene in addition to 'kotoba.'
なお、『鳥獣人物戯画』のように絵のみで詞のない絵巻もあり、『華厳宗祖師絵伝』のように、「詞」とは別に、画中人物のかたわらに「せりふ」を書き込んだものもある。