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A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.

The Actor Nakamura Takesaburo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho (?)

Torii Kiyonobu · c. 1718

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Palette

Putty
 53% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.2:1
Khaki
 35% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1
Bronze
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Saffron
 4% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.2:1
Old gold
 3% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.3:1
Sepia
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

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
Torii Kiyonobu
Japanese, 1664–1729
Date
c. 1718
Type
Print
Medium
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e
Size
29.9 × 13.4 cm (11 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 71, colourfulness 25

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1729: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1800. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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