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Utagawa's Lifetime Masterpiece, from the Japanese version of the Shuihu Zhuan by Utagawa Kunisada

Utagawa's Lifetime Masterpiece, from the Japanese version of the Shuihu Zhuan

Utagawa Kunisada · 1863 (5th month)

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Palette

Parchment
 30% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.1:1
Pewter
 29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Prussian blue
 21% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.9:1
Mushroom
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Salmon
 4% of the image
Pink · text contrast 6.0:1
Dusty rose
 2% of the image
Pink · 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
Utagawa Kunisada
Japanese, 1786–1864
Date
1863 (5th month)
Type
Print
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Size
14 1/8 x 28 1/2 in. (35.9 x 72.4 cm)
Place
Japan
Period
Edo period · 19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 58, colourfulness 13

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1960. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1864: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1935. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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