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Spring View from a Thatched Pavilion on the Lakeshore

School of Sesshu · late 15th century

Palette

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

School of Sesshu
Japanese, 1420-1506

Date

late 15th century

Type

Painting

Medium

Album leaf mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and light colors on silk

Size

Painting: 42 × 35.3 cm (16 9/16 × 13 15/16 in.); Overall: 128 × 53.3 cm (50 7/16 × 21 in.)

Place

Japan

Period

15th century

Main colour

Brown · lightness 42, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chester D. Tripp. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-29); image released under CC0. Licence rules