This pair of hanging scrolls, with their remarkable forms and colours, depict chrysanthemums in hyper-real detail #Hokusai (via @britishmuseum)

More #Hokusai #manga (via @britishmuseum)

#Hokusai produced a series of drawing manuals aimed at students called ‘Hokusai manga’ – they’re very different to the #manga we know today (via @britishmuseum)

Birds and flowers feature prominently in the work of #Hokusai – here we see a cuckoo diving between azalea flowers (via @britishmuseum)

#hokusai (via @britishmuseum)

#Hokusai (via @britishmuseum)

#hokusai (via @britishmuseum)

‘Until the age of 70, nothing I drew was worthy of notice’ – #Hokusai died #otd in 1849 aged 90 (via @britishmuseum)