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A work made of color woodblock print; right sheet of double-page illustration from book.

The Courtesan Hitomoto of the Daimonjiya, from the album "Comparing New Beauties of the Yoshiwara - A Mirror of Their Own Writings (Keisei shin bijin awase jikihitsu kagami)"

Santō Kyōden · 1784

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Palette

Putty
 54% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1
Tan
 24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Old gold
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1
Copper
 6% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.6:1
Oyster
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1
Raw umber
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1

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
Santō Kyōden
Japanese, 1761–1816
Date
1784
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; right sheet of double-page illustration from book
Size
37 × 25 cm (14 9/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 67, 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 1816: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1887. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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