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A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Obishiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2

Katsukawa Shunshō · 1776

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Palette

Fawn
 41% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.7:1
Parchment
 40% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.6:1
Khaki
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1
Salmon
 6% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.1:1
Taupe
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1
Tan
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1

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
1776
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book
Size
21.8 × 30.2 cm (8 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 71, colourfulness 22

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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