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A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Knowledge (Chi), from the series "Five Cardinal Virtues"

Suzuki Harunobu · 1767

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Palette

Pale stone
 36% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.9:1
Fawn
 34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.9:1
Honey
 15% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.5:1
Copper
 11% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.4:1
Bronze
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

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
Suzuki Harunobu
Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770
Date
1767
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban
Size
28.5 × w. 20.9 cm (11 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 69, colourfulness 26

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 1770: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1841. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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