Seurat, Sharaku(Hokusai) and Moronobu invented the same compositional technique

Shunrou "Children Playing the Sixteen Musashi", Shunrou "Children Playing the Sixteen Musashi", arc model In my earlier blog, I wrote that the late Shunro's "Children Playing the Sixteen Musashi", are made of continuous arcs, which is similar to Sharaku's work. Extend the arcs to make a circle model. Shunrou "Children Playing the Sixteen Musashi", large circle model The largest purple circles form the left hand cuff of the child on the right and the right hand cuff of the child on the left. Balance is achieved by shifting them along the horizontal line of the screen. This is the same technique used for [Kagamiiwa and Seimiyama]by Sharaku. Sharaku [Ka...