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A work made of color woodblock print; oban diptych.

Kitchen Scene

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1794/95

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Palette

Pale stone
 43% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.0:1
Parchment
 23% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 13.2:1
Mushroom
 19% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1
Smoke
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Graphite
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1
Terracotta
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.9:1

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
Kitagawa Utamaro
Japanese, c.1753-1806
Date
c. 1794/95
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban diptych
Size
Right: 37.5 × 25.4 cm (14 3/4 × 10 in.); Left: 37.5 × 24.8 cm (14 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Themes
Interiors
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 73, colourfulness 17

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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