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

Landscape of the Four Seasons

Sesson Shukei · About 1560

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Palette

Fawn
 30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Raw umber
 23% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1
Chalk
 21% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.7:1
Ash
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1
Pearl grey
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.0:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1

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, c. 1490-after 1577
Date
About 1560
Type
Painting
Medium
Pair of six-panel screens; ink and light color on paper
Size
Each: 174.2 × 357.2 cm (68 5/8 × 140 11/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
16th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 66, 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 (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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