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Portrait of Yoshida Sayaemon Kanesada by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Portrait of Yoshida Sayaemon Kanesada

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · 1852

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Palette

Parchment
 31% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.9:1
Ash
 28% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Iron
 27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.4:1
Pale gold
 8% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 11.7:1
Madder
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.8:1
Sand
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1

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
Gold & ochre · lightness 61, colourfulness 17

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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