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A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Emperor Wen of Han (Kan no Buntei), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · c. 1848/50

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Palette

Lichen
 50% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.3:1
Blue-grey
 19% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.2:1
Sepia
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.4:1
Spruce
 9% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.5:1
Brick
 8% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.0:1
Pale gold
 3% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.6:1

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. 1848/50
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban
Size
24.9 × 17.8 cm (9 13/16 × 7 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Green · lightness 56, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mary Alice Metzger. 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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