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A work made of album leaf, inks and color on paper..

Calligraphy

Shibata Zeshin · Meiji period (1868–1912)

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Palette

Dark olive
 62% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.4:1
Olive brown
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Dark chocolate
 7% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.1:1
Bistre
 7% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1
Ash
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.5:1

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
Shibata Zeshin
Date
Meiji period (1868–1912)
Type
Painting
Medium
Album leaf, inks and color on paper.
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 27, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barancik. 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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