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

The Actor Sanjo Kantaro II as a madwoman in the play "Kabuto Goban Tadanobu," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1728 (?)

Torii Kiyomasu II · c. 1728

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Palette

Biscuit
 79% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.7:1
Copper
 6% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.0:1
Sepia
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.5:1
Lamp black
 5% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.9:1
Old gold
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Saffron
 2% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.4:1

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
Torii Kiyomasu II
Japanese, 1706 (?)–1763 (?)
Date
c. 1728
Type
Print
Medium
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e
Size
34 × 15.9 cm (13 7/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 70, colourfulness 22

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 1763: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1834. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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