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Image of a Whale Hunt at Goto, Hizen Province (Hizen Goto geiryo no zu), from the series “One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)”

Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) · 1859

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Palette

Putty
 37% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.8:1
Warm grey
 35% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Midnight
 20% of the image
Blue · text contrast 14.9:1
Iron
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Slate blue
 3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.9:1
Bronze
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1

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 Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)
Japanese, 1826–1869
Date
1859
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 53, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1869: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1940. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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