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A work made of color woodblock print.

Oniwakamaru Observing the Great Carp in the Pond, from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts"

Yoshitoshi · 1889

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Palette

Lichen
 58% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.2:1
Taupe
 25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1
Graphite
 10% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.5:1
Oyster
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.6:1
Madder
 1% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.7:1
Pale gold
 1% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.2:1

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
Yoshitoshi
Japanese, 1839–1892
Date
1889
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Green · lightness 59, colourfulness 18

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 1892: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1963. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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