Hokusai Katsushika Gallery of the Reader Collection of Japanese Flower-and-Bird Art

In an 1816 picture album entitled Santai Gafu (i.e., Picture Album of Three Styles of Drawing) Hokusai drew the same subject using different styles. He called them formal, running and cursive after three styles of Japanese writing. Eighteen of the book’s pages included drawings of flowers or birds. These pages are shown in this gallery. Click on a picture to enlarge it.