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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The Mitsui Shop in Surugacho in Edo (Koto Surugacho Mitsui mise ryakuzu), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1830/33

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Palette

Pale stone
 66% of the image
Green · text contrast 10.5:1
Pewter
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1
Navy
 6% of the image
Blue · text contrast 14.8:1
Blue-grey
 6% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.5:1
Denim
 4% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.0:1
Steel blue
 3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.1:1

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
Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760-1849
Date
c. 1830/33
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
25.8 × 37.5 cm (10 1/8 × 14 3/4 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Mountains · Mount Fuji
Main colour
Green · lightness 67, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1849: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1920. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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