Illustration of Steam Locomotive Tracks at Takanawa, from the series Famous Places in Tokyo (Tōkyō meishō Takanawa-jōki kikansha no zen zu)
Yoshitoshi · 1872
Palette
Smoke
Lagoon
Bone white
Stone
Biscuit
Rose
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
- Yoshitoshi
Japanese, 1839–1892 - Date
- 1872
- Type
- Medium
- Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
- Size
- Image (a): 14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.6 x 24.1 cm) Image (b): 14 1/4 x 9 5/8 in. (36.2 x 24.4 cm) Image (c): 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in. (35.9 x 24.8 cm)
- Place
- Japan
- Period
- Meiji period · 19th century
- Main colour
- Grey · lightness 63, colourfulness 12
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1892: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1963. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules



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