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A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

Memorial Portrait of Actor Ichikawa Ebizô II (Danjûrô II) as a Peddler of the Medicine Uirô

Katsukawa Shunshō · About 1768–70

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Palette

Parchment
 73% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 13.2:1
Green earth
 9% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.8:1
Bistre
 8% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.6:1
Bone white
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.9:1
Apricot
 4% of the image
Orange · text contrast 6.9:1
Honey
 2% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.1:1

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
Katsukawa Shunshō
Japanese, 1726-1792
Date
About 1768–70
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; hosoban
Size
31.2 × 14.2 cm (12 5/16 × 5 5/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 78, colourfulness 27

Art Institute of Chicago, Frederick W. Gookin Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1792: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1863. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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