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True View of a Yokohama Mercantile House (Yokohama shokan shinzu)

A work made of color woodblock print; oban diptych (part of a triptych).

True View of a Yokohama Mercantile House (Yokohama shokan shinzu)

Utagawa Sadahide · 1861

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Palette

Taupe
43% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1

Butter
30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.0:1

Blue-grey
10% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.1:1

Terracotta
7% of the image
Orange · text contrast 6.1:1

Iron
7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1

Saffron
3% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.3:1

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: Utagawa Sadahide
Japanese, 1807-1873
Date: 1861
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print; oban diptych (part of a triptych)
Place: Japan
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 60, colourfulness 22

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