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A work made of color woodblock print; koban.

The Samurai (Shi) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)

Torii Kiyonaga · c. 1779

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Palette

Biscuit
 48% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.1:1
Taupe
 28% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Tan
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1
Apricot
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1
Graphite
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1
Terracotta
 5% of the image
Orange · 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
Torii Kiyonaga
Japanese, 1752-1815
Date
c. 1779
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; koban
Size
20.8 × 15.3 cm (8 1/4 × 6 1/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 64, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. 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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