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A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?).

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Osuwa in the Play Koi no Yosuga Kanagaki Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Monther, 1789

Katsukawa Shunshō · c. 1789

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Palette

Putty
 69% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.7:1
Pale gold
 13% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.6:1
Khaki
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Caramel
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.1:1
Terracotta
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.4:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1

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
Katsukawa Shunshō
Japanese, 1726-1792
Date
c. 1789
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)
Size
32.1 × 14.7 cm (12 5/8 × 5 13/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 67, colourfulness 25

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 1792: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1863. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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