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kanō
naganobu

1577 — 1654 · Early Modern

A Legacy of Gold and Grace: The Life of Kanō Naganobu In the shifting tides of Japan’s transition from the Momoyama to the Edo period, few artists captured the splendor and the changing political winds as masterfully as Kanō Naganobu. Born in Kyoto in 1577, …

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The Palette Genome

A portrait built from kanō naganobu's own colours

Every 2 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.

← Cool · Shadow Warm · Earth Gold · Light →

Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
The Chromatic Knot

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.

0° Red 90° Yellow 180° Cyan 270° Blue saturation →
Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers