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An American Mercantile Building in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan no zu)

A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

An American Mercantile Building in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan no zu)

Utagawa Sadahide · 1861

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Palette

Pale stone
65% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.5:1

Slate
12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1

Pewter
12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1

Terracotta
5% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.9:1

Taupe
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1

Prussian blue
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.2:1

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: Utagawa Sadahide
Japanese, 1807-1873
Date: 1861
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych
Size: 37 × 75.7 cm (14 5/8 × 29 13/16 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 15

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 1873: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1944. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules