Kita
Renzo
Kita Renzo: A Life in Painting and War Documentation Born: Gifu, Japan (1876) Died: 1949 Kita Renzo was a Japanese painter whose career spanned the late Meiji, Taisho, and early Showa periods. He is recognized for his western-style painting training, his role as an official …
A portrait built from Kita Renzo'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.
