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A work made of color woodblock print; chuban, surimono.

The Love Letter

Suzuki Harunobu · 1765

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Palette

Sand
 39% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.5:1
Pale stone
 29% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.5:1
Taupe
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Khaki
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Caramel
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1
Cinnamon
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1

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
Suzuki Harunobu
Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770
Date
1765
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban, surimono
Size
26.1 × 20.4 cm (10 1/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 66, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of H. R. Warner. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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