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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The Actor Sawamura Tossho II as Karukaya Doshin, No. 5 from the series "Flowers of Tokyo: Caricatures by Kunichika (Azuma no hana Kunichika manga)"

Toyohara Kunichika · 1872

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Palette

Soot
 39% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.7:1
Duck egg
 36% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.5:1
Stone
 18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Straw
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.1:1
Navy
 2% of the image
Purple · text contrast 13.0:1
Madder
 1% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.0:1

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
Toyohara Kunichika
Japanese, 1835-1900
Date
1872
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Flowers
Main colour
Green · lightness 44, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Judson D. Metzger Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1900: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1971. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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