Home
Artists
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Horimoto Gidayū Takatoshi

Horimoto Gidayū Takatoshi

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · ca. 1848

View at The Met ↗

Palette

Parchment
63% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.8:1

Taupe
21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Salmon
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1

Chalk
5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.5:1

Coral
3% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.4:1

Chestnut
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1

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: ca. 1848
Type: Print
Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Size: Vertical ōban; Image: 14 7/8 in. × 10 in. (37.8 × 25.4 cm)
Place: Japan
Period: Edo period · 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 74, colourfulness 22

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Arnold Weinstein Gift, 2001. 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