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A work made of color woodblock prints; oban triptych.

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro IX as Musashibo Benkei in the play "The Subscription List (Kanjincho)"

Yoshitoshi · 1890

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Palette

Navy
 32% of the image
Blue · text contrast 15.3:1
Biscuit
 24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.9:1
Charcoal
 24% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.2:1
Taupe
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1
Smoke
 4% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.6:1
Garnet
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 8.8:1

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
Yoshitoshi
Japanese, 1839–1892
Date
1890
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock prints; oban triptych
Size
72.8 × 36.5 cm (28 11/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Blue · lightness 38, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Frederick W. Gookin Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1892: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1963. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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