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A work made of color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet.

Returning Sails at Yabase (Yabase kihan), section of a sheet from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige · c. 1847/52

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Palette

Parchment
 41% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.3:1
Lagoon
 32% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.4:1
Prussian blue
 17% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.3:1
Sepia
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.5:1
Smoke
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1
Peacock
 3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.8:1

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. 1847/52
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet
Size
15.9 × 14.2 cm (6 5/16 × 5 5/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 62, colourfulness 19

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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