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Parody of the Third Princess and Kashiwagi: “Chapter 50: A Hut in the Eastern Provinces”

Parody of the Third Princess and Kashiwagi: “Chapter 50: A Hut in the Eastern Provinces”

Utagawa Kunisada · 1858, second month

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Palette

Parchment
46% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.8:1

Taupe
16% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.7:1

Chalk
14% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.7:1

Pale gold
10% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 10.3:1

Slate
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1

Madder
5% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.9:1

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: 1858, second month
Type: Print
Medium: Diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Size: Each 14 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (36.2 x 24.8 cm)
Place: Japan
Period: Edo period · 19th century
Themes: Cats
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 74, colourfulness 19

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1985. 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