Morning Market at Nihon Bridge (Nihonbashi, asaichi), section of a sheet from the series "Cutouts of Famous Places in Edo (Harimaze Koto meisho)"
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1852
Palette
Parchment
Lagoon
Warm grey
Slate
Prussian blue
Coral
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
- 1852
- Type
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet (uncut sheet: 1939.1288)
- Size
- 15 × 12.8 cm (5 15/16 × 5 1/16 in.)
- Place
- Japan
- Period
- 19th century
- Themes
- Cities and streets
- Main colour
- Gold & ochre · lightness 64, colourfulness 19
Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1858: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1929. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

















