in the second embodiment of the present invention the frame structure in the second embodiment has a structure in which the arrangement order of subfields in fig6 is changed the brightness weights of which are powers of 2 and which can represent the greatest number of gradations with a small number of subfields the variation of the light emission intensity in the frame structure of fig1 a is shown in fig 11b in which the positions of the two highest peaks are arranged with values of about half the frame length compared to the case with the conventional arrangement order in fig 6a therefore the component of 50 hz is lowered and that of 100 hz which is not detected by human eyes increases resulting in a reduction of flicker fig 12a is a diagram that shows the frame structure of the method of driving the plasma display apparatus in the third embodiment of the present invention and fig 12b is a diagram that shows the variation of the light emission intensity the plasma display apparatus in the third embodiment is an example case where the apparatus is driven at the frequency of 50 hz and the rest period occurs without fail in the frame structure in the third embodiment a total of 10 subfields that is subfields of 24 16 8 and 4 brightness weight in pairs respectively and subfields of 2 and 1 brightness weight each respectively are provided and after.