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Nihonbashi, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Nihonbashi, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"

Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1806

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Palette

Pale stone
40% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.7:1

Fawn
27% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1

Caramel
15% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.4:1

Green earth
9% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.5:1

Sand
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.5:1

Sepia
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.3:1

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: Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760-1849
Date: c. 1806
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print; chuban
Size: Approx: 24 × 18.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/4 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 69, colourfulness 21

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