yamaguchi
kayō
A Life Immersed in Nature: The World of Yamaguchi Kayō Yamaguchi Kayō, born Yonejiro Yamaguchi on October 3rd, 1899, in the historic Nakagyo ward of Kyoto, Japan, dedicated his life to capturing the delicate beauty and harmonious essence of the natural world through the refined …
A portrait built from yamaguchi kayō'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.
