A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

The Great Elephant from a Foreign Land (Ikoku watari dai zo no zu)

Utagawa Yoshiharu · 1863

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Palette

Putty
49% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1

Navy
37% of the image
Blue · text contrast 13.7:1

Slate
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

Parchment
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.6:1

Green earth
2% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.7:1

Sepia
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1

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

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Artist: Utagawa Yoshiharu
Japanese, 1828-1888
Date: 1863
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych
Place: Japan
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 47, colourfulness 17

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 1888: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1959. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

The Great Elephant from a Foreign Land (Ikoku watari dai zo no zu)

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