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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Ohatsu and Tokubei, from the series "Fashionable Patterns in Utamaro Style (Ryuko moyo Utamaro-gata)"

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1798/99

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Palette

Biscuit
 56% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.8:1
Straw
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.8:1
Soot
 12% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.9:1
Taupe
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Coral
 5% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.1:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.8:1

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
Kitagawa Utamaro
Japanese, c.1753-1806
Date
c. 1798/99
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
36.9 × 23.7 cm (14 1/2 × 9 5/16 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 1806: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1877. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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