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

A Cuckoo Against the Moon

Utagawa Hiroshige · c. 1843/46

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Palette

Ash
 44% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.3:1
Parchment
 40% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.4:1
Prussian blue
 10% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.8:1
Steel blue
 3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.1:1
Lichen
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.0:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1

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 Hiroshige
Japanese, 1797-1858
Date
c. 1843/46
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; uchiwa-e
Size
24 × 30.7 cm (9 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Night and moonlight
Main colour
Teal · lightness 66, colourfulness 17

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 1858: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1929. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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