untan
kaburaki
A Master of Modern Bijin-ga: Untan Kaburaki and the Refinement of Japanese Beauty Untan Kaburaki, a name synonymous with the graceful elegance of *bijin-ga* – pictures of beautiful women – emerged as a pivotal figure in early 20th-century Japanese art. Born Kaburaki Ken’ichi in Tokyo …
A portrait built from untan kaburaki's own colours
Every 1 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.
