Paint appropriate illustrations to accompany haiku ... Sakade, Florence, ed. A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese. Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. Stroke Order. Wikipedia: ...

Kurara: Japanese word for dazzling, mesmerizing brilliance. The act of painting was always kurara ... When Hokusai grew too old to wield his brush freely, O-Ei becomes his "brush" and paints ...