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Enjoying the Evening Cool at Shijō in Kyoto, from the series One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei) by Utagawa Hiroshige II

Enjoying the Evening Cool at Shijō in Kyoto, from the series One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige II · 1859, eighth month

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Palette

Pewter
 49% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Parchment
 24% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.3:1
Silver
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.9:1
Iron
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1
Prussian blue
 4% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.8:1
Terracotta
 1% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.4:1

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
Utagawa Hiroshige II
Japanese, 1826–1869
Date
1859, eighth month
Type
Print
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Size
H. 14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm); W. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm)
Place
Japan
Period
Edo period · 19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 59, colourfulness 9

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1919. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1869: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1940. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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