A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Five Men Doing the Work of Ten Bodies (Gonin jushin no hataraki)

Utagawa Yoshifuji · 1861

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Palette

Pale gold
45% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 11.2:1

Lamp black
17% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.7:1

Old gold
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1

Khaki
10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Butter
10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 13.2:1

Rust
7% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.8:1

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

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Artist: Utagawa Yoshifuji
Japanese, 1828–1887
Date: 1861
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print; oban
Place: Japan
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Yellow · lightness 60, colourfulness 42

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1887: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1958. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Five Men Doing the Work of Ten Bodies (Gonin jushin no hataraki)

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