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Evening Amusements at Ryogoku in the Eastern Capital (Toto Ryogoku yoasobi no zu)

A work made of color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych (left: 1939.1764).

Evening Amusements at Ryogoku in the Eastern Capital (Toto Ryogoku yoasobi no zu)

Toyohara Kunichika · 1859

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Palette

Iron
39% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.8:1

Parchment
35% of the image
Green · text contrast 10.7:1

Green earth
13% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.6:1

Blue-grey
10% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.4:1

Prussian blue
3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.8:1

Khaki
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

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: Toyohara Kunichika
Japanese, 1835-1900
Date: 1859
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych (left: 1939.1764)
Size: 35.6 × 23.5 cm (14 × 9 1/4 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Green · lightness 54, colourfulness 14

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 1900: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1971. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules