COLOUR STUDY

Colour palette

#4F493A
#796F59
#97896E
#B7A989
#B0A283
#A59679

Approximate colour proportions

#4F493A24.4%
#796F5921.3%
#97896E16.0%
#B7A98913.4%
#B0A28312.5%
#A5967912.4%

Estimated from six colour groups in the museum image, including visible paper or borders. Reproduction and lighting affect the result; these are image-area proportions, not pigment measurements.

Source: ColBase — Tokyo National Museum
Image licence: CC BY 4.0 · Web image resized for display. · Museum record & image source ↗

Japan · Late 15th–early 16th century

Autumn and Winter Landscapes

Sesshū Tōyō

Date: Late 15th–early 16th century
Medium: Ink on paper
Dimensions: Not listed in the source consulted
Country / context: Japan
Movement / tradition: Japanese art and printmaking
Collection: Tokyo National Museum
Pathway: Japanese art and printmaking ↗

ABOUT THIS WORK

These hanging scrolls contrast an open autumn sky with a winter cliff. Forms lead the eye upward into distance. Sesshū studied Chinese painting during his journey to Ming China; the work invites comparison between inherited landscape conventions and the structural force of his brushwork. The image shows one of the scrolls.

Original educational overview · based on the linked museum record

A MOMENT TO LOOK

Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?

Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.

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