There are red, blue and yellow paints on a palette. Thehandles of the three drawers are purple, orange and green. These paints canbe moved with the image of mixing colors. You can open each drawer by mixingcolors. Well, how do you open the purple drawer? The principle of themechanism is "combination". The paints and handles were made of wood byusing a turning lathe. They were painted to express “mixing colors” well.Don't they look like wet paints?
This work was produced by Karakuri Creation Group’s craftsmen, from aselected idea of “9th Karakuri Puzzle Idea Contest”.

Original idea byYasuhiro Hashimoto
Hand-crafted by Hiroshi Iwahara (Karakuri Creation Group)