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The Pagoda at Zojo Temple and Akabane (Zojoji to, Akabane), No.53 from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)”

The Pagoda at Zojo Temple and Akabane (Zojoji to, Akabane), No.53 from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)”

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857

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Palette

Ivory
52% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.1:1

Viridian
34% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.0:1

Coral
6% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.9:1

Salmon
4% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.6:1

Prussian blue
3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.9:1

Peacock
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.4:1

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 Hiroshige
Japanese, 1797-1858
Date: 1857
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print
Size: 36.2 × 24.4 cm (14 5/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Green · lightness 66, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1858: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1929. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules