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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Samezu Coast in South Shinagawa (Minami-Shinagawa Samezu kaigan), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857

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Palette

Blue-grey
 49% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.2:1
Pale stone
 29% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.5:1
Navy
 9% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.3:1
Steel blue
 5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.7:1
Iron
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1
Caramel
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1

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
1857
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast
Main colour
Teal · lightness 61, 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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