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Concise Illustrated Biography of Monk Nichiren: In Snow at Tsukahara on Sado Island by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Concise Illustrated Biography of Monk Nichiren: In Snow at Tsukahara on Sado Island

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · 1835–36

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Palette

Pale stone
 58% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.6:1
Warm grey
 27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Iron
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.7:1
Duck egg
 4% of the image
Teal · text contrast 8.0:1
Slate blue
 3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 8.1:1
Salmon
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1

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 Kuniyoshi
Japanese, 1797–1861
Date
1835–36
Type
Print
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Size
Oban: H. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm); W. 14 11/16 in. (37.3 cm)
Place
Japan
Period
Edo period · 19th century
Themes
Winter and snow · Rain and storms
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 69, colourfulness 13

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1922. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1861: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1932. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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