A work made of six-fold screen; ink, color, gold and silver on paper.

Genre Scenes (Fūzoku byōbu)

Unknown artist · About 1640

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Palette

Khaki
33% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

Tan
26% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Straw
18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.8:1

Sepia
13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.1:1

Taupe
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

Charcoal
5% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.8:1

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

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Artist: Unknown artist
Japanese
Date: About 1640
Type: Painting
Medium: Six-fold screen; ink, color, gold and silver on paper
Size: Painting: 147 × 349 cm (57 7/8 × 137 7/16 in.); Frame: 160.5 × 364 cm (63 1/4 × 143 5/16 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 17th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 56, colourfulness 26

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton. 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

Genre Scenes (Fūzoku byōbu)

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