Sceneries in the Tropical Land

Sceneries in the Tropical Land, by Imamura Shiko, Tokyo National Museum, Japan

Colors in this work

Artist: Shikō Imamura
Date: 1914
Holding institution: Tokyo National Museum
Palette: Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #E8C08C · 43%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #C3875E · 15%

Celadon Body · Green family · #70987C · 8%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #9A7346 · 8%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #94A882 · 7%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #D8C7A9 · 5%

Mandarin Enamel · Orange family · #EA7D44 · 5%

Flax Ground · Yellow family · #C3BB8F · 3%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #F6D7A8 · 2%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #CAA178 · 2%

Apricot Plaster · Orange family · #E9A35A · <1%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #D8CBB9 · <1%

Raw Walnut · Brown family · #644A30 · <1%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #F6E4C5 · <1%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #7FA0B9 · <1%

Emerald Glaze · Green family · #4A9068 · <1%

Plaster Rose · Pink family · #F3A094 · <1%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #AFD2B7 · <1%

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Image provider: wikimedia-commons
License: Public domain
Credit: Tokyo National Museum

11 tags

Landscapes Visual · 91%

A wide view of a built tropical environment includes vegetation, rooftops, open ground, and distant structures, functioning as a landscape or broad environmental scene.
Flora Visual · 99%

Palms, broad-canopied trees, and dense leafy vegetation occupy substantial portions of the foreground and middle ground.
Animals Visual · 98%

Several elephants and numerous smaller hoofed animals are visibly distributed through the lower and central portions of the scene.
Scenes of Everyday Life Visual · 87%

Many small figures are shown together in a public setting, gathered around apparent stalls, baskets, vessels, and other goods, suggesting ordinary communal activity.
Crowds Visual · 92%

The composition contains a large number of dispersed figures and overlapping activity zones across the lower half of the image.
Haze Visual · 86%

The pale warm background and softened distant forms create a visibly hazy atmospheric effect.

Earth Tones Visual · 96%

The palette is dominated by ochre, beige, terracotta, dusty red, and muted green, producing an overall earthy chromatic impression.
Flatness Visual · 93%

Buildings, vegetation, figures, animals, and roofs are arranged in overlapping horizontal bands with limited conventional recession, giving the scene a notably flattened organization.
Dense Composition Visual · 95%

The picture surface is tightly occupied by overlapping roofs, trees, figures, animals, and architectural forms rather than a single isolated motif.

Painting Visual · 88%

The reproduced image has the appearance of a hand-rendered painted scene, with opaque color areas, visible surface texture, and drawn linear details; the metadata more cautiously classifies it as Japanese painting or print.

1900 - 1917 Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the work to 1914, placing it within the 1900–1917 period.

Shikō Imamura. http://www.emuseum.jp/detail/100292/000

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