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A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

No. 2: Chinese boys copying paintings and writing Japanese, from the series "Children Say 'This is Japan!' and Imitate the Games They See in Picturebooks (Yodo iu koitsu wa Nippon, ezoshi o mite yori sono gai ni asobu)"

Torii Kiyonaga · c. 1791

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Palette

Biscuit
 60% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.6:1
Fawn
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1
Taupe
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Sand
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1
Tan
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Salmon
 3% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.6:1

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. 1791
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban
Size
25.1 × 18.7 cm (9 15/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 71, colourfulness 22

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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