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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Hour of the Monkey [4pm] (Saru no koku), from the series “The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara” ("Seiro juni toki tsuzuki")

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1794

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Palette

Biscuit
 57% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.9:1
Khaki
 18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.0:1
Apricot
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1
Straw
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.0:1
Old gold
 4% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.3:1
Olive brown
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1

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
37.3 × 24.4 cm (14 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 72, colourfulness 29

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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