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A work made of color woodblock print; three left sheets of oban pentaptych.

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

Kitagawa Utamaro · late 1790s

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Palette

Sand
 45% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.2:1
Caramel
 43% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.5:1
Umber
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1
Burnt sienna
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 9.2:1
Burnt orange
 1% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.8:1
Bone white
 1% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.8:1

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
late 1790s
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; three left sheets of oban pentaptych
Size
38.8 × 77 cm (15 5/16 × 30 3/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 57, colourfulness 32

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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