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A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Moshio (?) in the Play Honda Yayoi Meoto Junrei (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1778 (?)

Katsukawa Shunkо̄ · c. 1778

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Palette

Putty
 46% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1
Green earth
 17% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.5:1
Pale gold
 17% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.6:1
Olive
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1
Terracotta
 5% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.7:1
Sepia
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1

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
Katsukawa Shunkо̄
Japanese, 1743-1812
Date
c. 1778
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; hosoban
Size
31.9 × 14.8 cm (12 9/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 64, colourfulness 26

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1812: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1883. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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