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Fishing Village, from the series "A World of Things (Momoyogusa)"

Fishing Village, from the series "A World of Things (Momoyogusa)"

Kamisaka Sekka · 1909/10

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Palette

Denim
35% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.0:1

Pearl grey
33% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.5:1

Putty
16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1

Steel blue
11% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.7:1

Ash
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

Warm grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1

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: 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
Main colour: Blue · lightness 62, colourfulness 15

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