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Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) by Katsushika Hokusai

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1830–32

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Palette

Parchment
 48% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.3:1
Pale stone
 27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.1:1
Slate blue
 9% of the image
Blue · text contrast 8.2:1
Blue-grey
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Ash
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1
Warm grey
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

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
Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760–1849 Tokyo (Edo)
Date
ca. 1830–32
Type
Print
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Size
10 x 15 in. (25.4 x 38.1 cm)
Place
Japan
Period
Edo period · 19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast · Boats and ships · Mountains · Mount Fuji
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 74, colourfulness 14

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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