May: Shoki the Demon Queller Riding on a Tiger, Subjugating Goblins, from the series "Of the Twelve Months: the Fifth (Junikagetsu no uchi: gogatsu)"
Kawanabe Kyôsai · 1887
Palette
Mushroom
Taupe
Ivory
Tan
Pewter
Carmine
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
- Kawanabe Kyôsai
Japanese, 1831-1889 - Date
- 1887
- Type
- Medium
- Color woodblock prints; oban triptych
- Size
- 35.7 × 73.2 cm (14 1/16 × 28 7/8 in.)
- Place
- Japan
- Period
- 19th century
- Main colour
- Gold & ochre · lightness 57, colourfulness 17
Art Institute of Chicago, Nathalie Gookin Fund in memory of Frederick W. Gookin. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1889: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1960. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules
