kawanabe
kyōsai
kawanabe kyōsai was a japanese artist, in the words of a critic, "an individualist and an independent, perhaps the last virtuoso in traditional japanese painting". living through the edo period to the meiji period, kyōsai witnessed japan transform itself from a feudal country into a …
A portrait built from kawanabe kyōsai's own colours
Every 12 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
