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biography of a noted artist kaihō yūsetsu, a japanese painter from the kaihō school, lived from 1598 to 1677. born into a military family in kyoto, he later moved to edo (now tokyo), where his artistic career flourished. following in the footsteps of his father, kaihō yūshō, yūsetsu became a prominent figure in japanese art, particularly influencing zhu xi, the architect of neo-confucianism. artistic contributions and style yūsetsu's work was characterized by its focus on taiji (supreme polarity) and wuji (limitless potential), as well as the yin and yang, and the wu xing (the five phases). h…
A chart of kaihō yūsetsu's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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