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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Asakusa Imado, from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto Meisho)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · c. 1832/33

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Palette

Putty
 68% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.6:1
Sepia
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1
Prussian blue
 8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.3:1
Taupe
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Pewter
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1
Tan
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1

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. 1832/33
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
26.2 × 37.5 cm (10 5/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Green · lightness 60, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Japanese Print Purchase Fund. 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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