Utagawa Kunisada · 19th century
Palette
Cream
Steel blue
Putty
Madder
Sage
Salmon
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
- 19th century
- Type
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Size
- Image: 13 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (34.6 × 24.4 cm)
- Place
- Japan
- Period
- Edo period · 18th century
- Main colour
- White & cream · lightness 75, colourfulness 22
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914. 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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