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A color woodblock print of a large crashing wave, looms over two narrow boats full of people. Mt Fuji in the background. There is a faint peach colored sky.

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai · 1830/33

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Palette

Biscuit
 49% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.9:1
Ash
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Prussian blue
 14% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.8:1
Blue-grey
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1
Linen
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1

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
1830/33
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
25.4 × 37.6 cm (10 × 14 3/4 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast · Mountains · Mount Fuji
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 66, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. 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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