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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Woman Holding a Tortoise-shell Hair-comb

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1795/96

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Palette

Biscuit
 45% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1
Fawn
 19% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1
Graphite
 12% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.6:1
Taupe
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Tan
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1
Linen
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.0:1

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
Kitagawa Utamaro
Japanese, c.1753-1806
Date
c. 1795/96
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
39.2 × 26.6 cm (15 7/16 × 10 1/2 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 64, colourfulness 19

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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