Kinugawa Yoemon, with Poem by Harumichi no Tsuraki, from the series "Ogura Versions of the One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae Hyakunin isshu)"
Utagawa Kuniyoshi · c. 1845/48
Palette
Stone
Biscuit
Smoke
Graphite
Prussian blue
Cinnamon
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
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Japanese, 1797–1861 - Date
- c. 1845/48
- Type
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Place
- Japan
- Period
- 19th century
- Main colour
- Gold & ochre · lightness 61, colourfulness 14
Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Patricia Hyland. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1861: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1932. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules








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