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A work made of handscroll; ink and colors on paper.

Night Procession of Goblins (Hyakki yagyo no zu)

Kawanabe Kyôsai · c.1865

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Palette

Putty
 71% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.8:1
Stone
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1
Fawn
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Pale stone
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1
Warm grey
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1
Taupe
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1

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
Kawanabe Kyôsai
Japanese, 1831-1889
Date
c.1865
Type
Painting
Medium
Handscroll; Ink and colors on paper
Size
30 × 965.5 cm (11 13/16 × 380 1/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Night and moonlight
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 70, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Japanese Print Purchase Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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