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Poet with Two Pages on the Banks of the Tatsuta by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Poet with Two Pages on the Banks of the Tatsuta

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · ca. 1845

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Palette

Parchment
 42% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.7:1
Ash
 24% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.2:1
Taupe
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1
Mushroom
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Coral
 3% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.7:1
Peach
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.1:1

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
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Japanese, 1797–1861
Date
ca. 1845
Type
Print
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Size
H. 14 11/16 in. (37.3 cm); W. 10 1/16 in. (25.6 cm)
Place
Japan
Period
Edo period · 19th century
Themes
Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 70, colourfulness 16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1925. 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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