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A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

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Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1800/01

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Palette

Pale stone
 44% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.1:1
Sand
 24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.1:1
Stone
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1
Sepia
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.2:1
Bone white
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.7:1
Charcoal
 4% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.8:1

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. 1800/01
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban triptych
Size
Overall 37.0 × 74.6 cm; 37.0 × 25.0 cm (left sheet), 36.9 × 24.9 cm (center sheet), 37.0 × 24.7 cm (right sheet)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 69, colourfulness 15

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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