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Pine Beach with Shrine Gate, from the series "A World of Things (Momoyogusa)”

Pine Beach with Shrine Gate, from the series "A World of Things (Momoyogusa)”

Kamisaka Sekka · 1909/10

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Palette

Bone white
55% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.6:1

Blue-grey
35% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.4:1

Malachite
4% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.4:1

Raw umber
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1

Silver
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1

Celadon
1% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.5:1

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: Kamisaka Sekka
Japanese, 1866-1942
Date: 1909/10
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print
Size: 29.8 × 44.8 cm (11 3/4 × 17 11/16 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 20th century
Themes: Seascapes and the coast · Trees and forests
Main colour: Blue · lightness 74, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Fischer Fund. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1942: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2013. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules