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A work made of color woodblock print; vertical nagaban.

Sei Shonagon, from the series "A True Mirror of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyo)"

Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1833/34

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Palette

Pale stone
 52% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.6:1
Taupe
 28% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.4:1
Tan
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1
Slate
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1
Pale gold
 4% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 10.8:1
Blue-grey
 2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.3:1

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. 1833/34
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; vertical nagaban
Size
71.2 × 40.6 cm (28 1/16 × 16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 64, colourfulness 14

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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