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岸竹堂 画 · 1903 · 山田芸艸堂 · 50 pictures

Takudō Gafu, first series, is a Japanese ehon picture book painted by Kishi Chikudō and published in 1903 by Yamada Unsōdō, meant as a model collection for students of ink painting. Its pages show ink-wash landscapes, a crouching tiger, and a raccoon-dog under a flowering branch, drawn with loose brushwork, pale grey washes, and open paper left blank to suggest mist and sky, which a designer could borrow for atmospheric monochrome compositions.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library