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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Snake (Mi): Nitan Shiro, from the series "Heroes for the Twelve Animals of the Zodiac (Buyu mitate junishi)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · c. 1840

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Palette

Iron
 39% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Taupe
 34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Stone
 10% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.4:1
Charcoal
 10% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.3:1
Oyster
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.6:1
Bronze
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

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
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Japanese, 1797-1861
Date
c. 1840
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
63.1 × 12.2 cm (24 13/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 42, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Michener. 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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