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A work made of pair of six-fold screens; ink and light color on paper.

Landscape of the Four Seasons

Sesson Shukei · c. 1560

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Palette

Chalk
 25% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.6:1
Fawn
 24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1
Ash
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Taupe
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1
Sepia
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1
Bronze
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1

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

Details

Artist
Sesson Shukei
Japanese, 1504-about 1589
Date
c. 1560
Type
Painting
Medium
Pair of six-fold screens; ink and light color on paper
Size
156.5 × 337 cm (61 5/8 × 132 11/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
16th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 65, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation. 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

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