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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actors Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Goshaku Somegoro and Onoe Kikugoro III as Denkichi Tsuchizaemon (inset)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · c. 1844/48

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Palette

Pale stone
 68% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.6:1
Taupe
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1
Sepia
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1
Prussian blue
 3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.5:1
Salmon
 3% of the image
Pink · text contrast 6.1:1
Brick
 1% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.8:1

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. 1844/48
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
34.7 × 24.9 cm (13 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Green · lightness 70, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Goward Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1861: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1932. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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