Papers with Japanese text hang from a tree bearing red and gold leaves.

Flowering Cherry and Autumn Maples with Poem Slips

Tosa Mitsuoki · 1654/81

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Palette

Fawn
54% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1

Caramel
27% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.9:1

Bronze
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Taupe
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1

Biscuit
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.3:1

Terracotta
3% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.0:1

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: Tosa Mitsuoki
Japanese, 1617-1691
Date: 1654/81
Type: Painting
Medium: Pair of six-panel screens; ink, color, gold and silver on silk
Size: Each: 144 × 286 cm (56 3/4 × 112 5/8 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 17th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 58, colourfulness 30

Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Flowering Cherry and Autumn Maples with Poem Slips

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