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Utagawa Hiroshige
Kawasaki, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Kawasaki, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)

Utagawa Hiroshige · c. 1837/42

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Palette

Pale stone
44% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.1:1

Warm grey
35% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.1:1

Duck egg
12% of the image
Teal · text contrast 8.2:1

Straw
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.5:1

Peacock
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.8:1

Madder
1% of the image
Red · 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: Utagawa Hiroshige
Japanese, 1797-1858
Date: c. 1837/42
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print; chuban
Size: 16.8 × 22.8 cm (6 5/8 × 8 15/16 in.)
Place: Japan
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 70, colourfulness 16

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