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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

No. 42: Midono, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)"

Utagawa Hiroshige · c. 1835/38

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Palette

Parchment
 39% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.5:1
Pale gold
 27% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 10.0:1
Sage
 25% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.1:1
Prussian blue
 5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.1:1
Smoke
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Blue-grey
 2% of the image
Teal · text contrast 5.9:1

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
c. 1835/38
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
24.5 × 37 cm (9 5/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 71, colourfulness 29

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

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