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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Ukita Sakingo and Sawamura Sojuro III as the ghost of the courtesan Takao, in the play "Ominaeshi Sugata no Hatsuaki," performed at the Nakamura Theater, 1788

Torii Kiyonaga · 1788

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Palette

Sand
 61% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.7:1
Khaki
 14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1
Tan
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Linen
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.9:1
Graphite
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.8:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1

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
Torii Kiyonaga
Japanese, 1752-1815
Date
1788
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
36.3 × 24.6 cm (14 5/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 66, colourfulness 25

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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