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A work made of hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk.

Frost fills the air and the autumn air is still/lines of returning geese cross the moon in the third hour-Kenshin, from the series Twelve Aspects of the Moon

Yoshitoshi · 1885/92

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Palette

Taupe
 86% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Sepia
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1
Iron
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1
Graphite
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.1:1
Umber
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.6:1
Raw umber
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1

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
Yoshitoshi
Japanese (1839–1892)
Date
1885/92
Type
Painting
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk
Size
105.5 × 40.7 cm (41 9/16 × 16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Night and moonlight · Winter and snow · Birds
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 50, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Roger L. Weston. 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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