A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Beauty Wearing a Summer Kimono, from the series “New Patterns of Brocade Woven in Utamaro Style" ("Nishiki-ori Utamaro-gata-shinmoyo")

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1796/98

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Palette

Biscuit
63% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.7:1

Fawn
16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1

Graphite
7% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.8:1

Taupe
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1

Bone white
5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.5:1

Salmon
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1

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: Kitagawa Utamaro
Japanese, c.1753-1806
Date: c. 1796/98
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print; oban
Size: 34 × 25.3 cm (13 7/16 × 10 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 20

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