A work made of pair of six-panel screens; ink, colors, and gold on paper.

The Tale of Taishokan

Unknown artist · 1640-80

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Palette

Sand
23% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1

Taupe
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1

Tan
17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Fawn
17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1

Smoke
15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

Khaki
8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1

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: 1640-80
Type: Painting
Medium: Pair of six-panel screens; ink, colors, and gold on paper
Size: Each: 173 × 374 cm (68 1/8 × 147 1/4 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 17th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 54, colourfulness 24

Art Institute of Chicago, Restricted gift of Charles C. Haffner III and Muriel Kallis Newman; Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and Walter E. Heller Foundation Endowment; through prior gift of Charles C. Haffner III. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-01); image released under CC0. Licence rules

The Tale of Taishokan

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