Hiroshige
A Poetic Vision of Edo Japan: The Life and Art of Utagawa Hiroshige Utagawa Hiroshige, syntynyt Andō Tokutarō nimellä vuonna 1797 vilkkaassa Edossa (nykyinen Tokio), on merkittävä hahmo *ukiyo-e* -taiteen maailmassa – tai "kuvien kelluvasta maailmasta". Vaikka hän oli syvään juurtunut japanilaiseen puulattiatyöstöön, Hiroshige ylitti …
A portrait built from Hiroshige's own colours
Every 61 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.
