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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Oe no Chisato, from the series "One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu no uchi)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · c. 1842

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Palette

Putty
 70% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.9:1
Green earth
 9% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.6:1
Graphite
 9% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.3:1
Iron
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.3:1
Khaki
 3% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.6:1
Tan
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1

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
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Japanese, 1797-1861
Date
c. 1842
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Size
36 × 24.7 cm (14 3/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Green · lightness 64, colourfulness 14

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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