Toyohara
Chikanobu
A Visionary of the Meiji Era: The Life and Legacy of Toyohara Chikanobu In the twilight of the Edo period and the dawn of a modernizing Japan, few artists captured the profound tension between tradition and transformation as masterfully as Toyohara Chikanobu. Born in 1838, …
A portrait built from Toyohara Chikanobu's own colours
Every 21 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.