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A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Act Six: Yoichibei's House from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)

Katsukawa Shunshō · c. 1779/80

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Palette

Pale stone
 42% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.0:1
Raw umber
 29% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1
Stone
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.7:1
Pale gold
 7% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.0:1
Khaki
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Salmon
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.9:1

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 Shunshō
Japanese, 1726-1792
Date
c. 1779/80
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban
Size
26.5 × 19 cm (10 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 64, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1792: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1863. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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