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A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Yui: The Yui River (Yui, Yuigawa), 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

Parchment
 48% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.5:1
Sage
 31% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.8:1
Sand
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.1:1
Slate blue
 4% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.9:1
Flamingo
 4% of the image
Pink · text contrast 7.4:1
Iron
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1

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
17.1 × 22.9 cm (6 11/16 × 9 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 71, colourfulness 18

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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