I think rather "artist wrong", the cats drawing you are refering atslowtiger wrote: ...I tried to find the sketches of cats which I believe Hokusai did, in brush and ink, but either I got the artist wrong or nobody had bothered to scan those.
is probably the one from the "sohistu gafu" sketchbook of Hiroshigé (around 1850),
or am I wrong too ..?
unless it's another one, from Utagawa Kuniyoshi ?