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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Poem by Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)"

Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1835/36

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Palette

Putty
 59% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.3:1
Iron
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.3:1
Steel blue
 11% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.9:1
Prussian blue
 8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.4:1
Raw umber
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1
Straw
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.5:1

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
Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760-1849
Date
c. 1835/36
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 61, 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 1849: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1920. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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