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A work made of color woodblock print; koban.

The Sixth Month (Minatsuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juniko)"

Torii Kiyonaga · c. 1779

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Palette

Putty
 43% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.7:1
Stone
 29% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.5:1
Straw
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.2:1
Tan
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Apricot
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1
Olive brown
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1

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
22.6 × 15.6 cm (8 15/16 × 6 3/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 68, 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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