Painted portrait of the upper torso and head of a man with medium skin, a red cloth covering his head and shoulders, an exposed chest, and light facial hair. The background is a neutral tone and the figure takes up only the bottom half of the tall, bordered, rectangular scroll.

Daruma

Unknown artist · c. 1550

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Palette

Tan
46% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Brick
25% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.7:1

Sand
15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1

Dark ochre
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Caramel
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.4:1

Cinnamon
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

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Artist: Unknown artist
Japanese
Date: c. 1550
Type: Painting
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink, colors, and gold on silk
Size: 109.2 × 54 cm (43 × 21 1/4 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 16th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 50, colourfulness 36

Art Institute of Chicago, Russell Tyson, Samuel M. Nickerson endowments. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Daruma

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