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A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

Enjoying the Cool in a Garden

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1788/90

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Palette

Fawn
 52% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Putty
 32% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.2:1
Bone white
 7% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.9:1
Raw umber
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1
Honey
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.0:1

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. 1788/90
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban triptych
Size
Right sheet: 38.7 × 26 cm (15 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.); Center sheet: 39 × 26 cm (15 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Left sheet: 39 × 26.5 cm (15 3/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Both sheets: 39.3 × 78.4 cm (15 1/2 × 30 7/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Themes
Gardens
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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