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Kitagawa Utamaro
Kintaro, Urashimataro, and Momotaro, from the triptych "Set of Three Sake Cups for the First Month (Tarozuki mitsugumi sakazuki)"

A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

Kintaro, Urashimataro, and Momotaro, from the triptych "Set of Three Sake Cups for the First Month (Tarozuki mitsugumi sakazuki)"

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1800/01

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Palette

Pale blue-grey
36% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1

Powder blue
35% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.7:1

Lavender grey
13% of the image
Purple · text contrast 4.9:1

Slate blue
6% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.2:1

Rose
6% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.8:1

Warm grey
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

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. 1800/01
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych
Size: 38.9 × 75.5 cm (15 5/16 × 29 3/4 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Grey · lightness 70, colourfulness 10

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