seikei
The Architect of Light: The Life and Legacy of Seikei In the transformative landscape of Meiji-era Japan, few figures cast as long or as luminous a shadow as Seikei, known to history by his birth name, Kuroda Seiki. Born in 1866 into the prestigious Shimazu …
A portrait built from seikei'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.
