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Portrait of Oboshi Yuranosuke Yoshio (The Leader) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Portrait of Oboshi Yuranosuke Yoshio (The Leader)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · 1852

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Palette

Smoke
 54% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Putty
 26% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.8:1
Mango
 9% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 10.9:1
Chalk
 6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.2:1
Madder
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.3:1
Sand
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.0:1

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
1852
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
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Grey · lightness 59, colourfulness 14

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1929. 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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