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A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Sawamura Tamagashira as a Strolling Musician in the Play Dai Danna Kanjincho, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1790

Katsukawa Shun'ei · c. 1790

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Palette

Biscuit
 51% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1
Taupe
 19% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Pale gold
 16% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.0:1
Khaki
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Brick
 5% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.3:1
Tan
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

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 Shun'ei
Japanese, 1762-1819
Date
c. 1790
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; hosoban
Size
31.6 × 14.7 cm (12 7/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 65, colourfulness 27

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 1819: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1890. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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