Hiroshige
A Poetic Vision of Edo Japan: The Life and Art of Utagawa Hiroshige Utagawa Hiroshige, geboren als Andō Tokutarō in 1797 in de bruisende stad Edo (het moderne Tokio), staat als een cruciale figuur in de wereld van *ukiyo-e*, of “afbeeldingen van de drijvende wereld.” …
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.
