竹堂画譜 正編
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.
