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The Kitchen by Kitagawa Utamaro

The Kitchen

Kitagawa Utamaro · 1795

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Palette

Putty
 37% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.0:1
Straw
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.5:1
Smoke
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1
Brick
 12% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.0:1
Cream
 12% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.0:1
Salmon
 2% of the image
Pink · text contrast 6.4:1

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
Kitagawa Utamaro
Japanese, ca. 1754–1806
Date
1795
Type
Print
Medium
Right-hand sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Size
15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm)
Place
Japan
Period
Edo period · 18th century
Themes
Interiors
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 69, colourfulness 24

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936. 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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