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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Casting a Mantra on the Waves at Kakuta on His Exile to Sado Island (Sashu rukei Kakuta nami daimoku), from the series "Concise Illustrated Biography of the Great Priest [Nichiren] (Koso go ichidai ryakuzu)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · c. 1830/35

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Palette

Slate
 32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1
Stone
 26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Putty
 18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.2:1
Iron
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.8:1
Tan
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1
Linen
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.1:1

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
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Japanese, 1797-1861
Date
c. 1830/35
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
23.4 × 36.8 cm (9 3/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast
Main colour
Grey · lightness 54, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Michener. 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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The closest palettes among 5004 works, by average colour distance between the two palettes.

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