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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Willow Tree at the Gate of the Shimabara Pleasure Quarrter (Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)"

Utagawa Hiroshige · c. 1834

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Palette

Pale stone
 44% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.2:1
Stone
 28% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1
Taupe
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1
Prussian blue
 5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.0:1
Sand
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1
Tan
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

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
Utagawa Hiroshige
Japanese, 1797-1858
Date
c. 1834
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
25.4 × 38.1 cm (10 × 15 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Trees and forests
Main colour
Green · lightness 63, colourfulness 17

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 1858: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1929. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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