Yosa
Buson
A Life Woven in Poetry and Paint: The World of Yosa Buson Yosa Buson, born into a modest samurai family in 1716 in Kii Province (present-day Wakayama Prefecture), Japan, was not destined for the battlefield. Though his lineage carried with it certain expectations, Buson’s heart …
A portrait built from Yosa Buson's own colours
Every 16 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.
