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A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Illustration of a Chinese poem, from the series "Picture Book of Chinese Poems (Toshi gafu no uchi)"

Totoya Hokkei · c. 1830/44

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Palette

Pale stone
 48% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.5:1
Blue-grey
 18% of the image
Teal · text contrast 4.7:1
Prussian blue
 11% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.1:1
Ash
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1
Biscuit
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.4:1
Slate
 3% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.2:1

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
Totoya Hokkei
Japanese, 1780–1850
Date
c. 1830/44
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 67, colourfulness 16

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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