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A work made of color woodblock print.

The Asahiya Widow, from the series “Renowned Beauties Likened to the Six Immortal Poets" ("Komei bijin rokkasen")

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1795/96

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Palette

Biscuit
 60% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.1:1
Iron
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Ivory
 9% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.8:1
Stone
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1
Lamp black
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.7:1
Green earth
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.4:1

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
Kitagawa Utamaro
Japanese, c.1753-1806
Date
c. 1795/96
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print
Size
38.6 × 25.7 cm (15 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 65, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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