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Tachibana no Hayanari (c. 782 - September 24, 844 CE) was a Heian period Japanese government official, calligrapher, and member of the Tachibana family. He travelled to China in 804, returning in 806. His most famous surviving calligraphic work is the <i>Ito Naishin'no Ganmon</i>, now in the Imperial Household collection. He is honored as one of the group of three outstanding calligraphers called <i>Sanpitsu</i> ('Three Brushes').<br/><br/> He is honored posthumously as a <i>kami</i> at Kami Goryo Shrine Kyoto.<br/><br/> Totoya Hokkei was a Japanese printmaker and book illustrator. He initially studied painting with Kano Yosen (1735-1808), the head of the Kobikicho branch of the Kano School and <i>okaeshi</i> (official painter) to the Tokugawa shogunate.<br/><br/> Together with Teisai Hokuba (1771-1844), Hokkei was one of Katsushika Hokusai's best students.