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Illustration of the Empress Visiting the General Staff Headquarters [to present a tray of bandages] (Sanbō honbu gyōkei no zu) by Kobayashi Kiyochika

Illustration of the Empress Visiting the General Staff Headquarters [to present a tray of bandages] (Sanbō honbu gyōkei no zu)

Kobayashi Kiyochika · 1895

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Palette

Linen
 53% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.3:1
Dusty rose
 16% of the image
Pink · text contrast 6.9:1
Flamingo
 14% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.9:1
Stone
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Apricot
 2% of the image
Orange · text contrast 7.6:1

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
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Japanese, 1847–1915
Date
1895
Type
Print
Medium
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Size
14 × 27 3/4 in. (35.6 × 70.5 cm)
Place
Japan
Period
Meiji period · 19th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 77, colourfulness 20

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1915: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1986. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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