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A work made of color woodblock print; uchiwa-e.

Iwai Kumesaburo II as the Courtesan Takao in Banzei Okuni Kabuki

Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) · c. 1827

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Palette

Parchment
 47% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.3:1
Lemon
 26% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 10.6:1
Taupe
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1
Dark chocolate
 7% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.0:1
Coral
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.6:1
Terracotta
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.7:1

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
Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Japanese, 1786-1865
Date
c. 1827
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; uchiwa-e
Size
24.2 × 25.5 cm (9 9/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 70, colourfulness 30

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Roberta and H. George Mann. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1880: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1951. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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