Pleasure Parties in Boats on the Sumida River under the Ryogoku Bridge
Kitagawa Utamaro · ca. 1796
Palette
Parchment
Mushroom
Taupe
Sand
Flamingo
Salmon
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
- Kitagawa Utamaro
Japanese, ca. 1754–1806 - Date
- ca. 1796
- Type
- Medium
- One sheet of a hexaptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
- Size
- 15 3/32 x 10 1/5 in. (38.3 x 25.9 cm)
- Place
- Japan
- Period
- Edo period · 18th century
- Themes
- Boats and ships · Rivers and lakes · Cities and streets
- Main colour
- Gold & ochre · lightness 66, colourfulness 19
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1914. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1806: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1877. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules











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