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True View of the Foreign Buildings along the Waterfront Seen from the Yokohama Wharves (Yokohama hatoba yori kaigandori ijinkan no shinzu)

A work made of color woodblock print; two sheets of oban triptych.

True View of the Foreign Buildings along the Waterfront Seen from the Yokohama Wharves (Yokohama hatoba yori kaigandori ijinkan no shinzu)

Utagawa Hiroshige III · c. 1875

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Palette

Parchment
65% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.6:1

Teal
18% of the image
Teal · text contrast 5.0:1

Navy
10% of the image
Blue · text contrast 13.1:1

Malachite
3% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.8:1

Crimson
2% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.0:1

Brick
2% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.0:1

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 Hiroshige III
Japanese, 1842-1894
Date: c. 1875
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print; two sheets of oban triptych
Place: Japan
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 68, 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 1894: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1965. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules