Climbing a mountain in Liuzhou, from the series "Picture Book of Chinese Poems (Toshi gafu no uchi)"
Totoya Hokkei · c. 1830/44
Palette
Parchment
Pewter
Sage
Prussian blue
Biscuit
Slate
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
- Totoya Hokkei
Japanese, 1780–1850 - Date
- c. 1830/44
- Type
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Place
- Japan
- Period
- 19th century
- Themes
- Mountains · Reading and letters
- Main colour
- Gold & ochre · lightness 66, colourfulness 20
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














