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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Hour of the Ox [2am] (Ushi no koku), from the series "The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1794

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Palette

Parchment
 66% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.5:1
Putty
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.6:1
Taupe
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Mushroom
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Bone white
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.9:1
Salmon
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.8:1

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. 1794
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
37.6 × 24.3 cm (14 13/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 78, colourfulness 18

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

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