Postal Hōchi Newspaper no. 645, Englishman raping a wine shopkeeper's daughter (Yūbin Hōchi shinbun, roppyaku yonjū gogō)
Yoshitoshi · August, 1875
Palette
Putty
Bone white
Sage
Slate blue
Madder
Apricot
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
- August, 1875
- Type
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Size
- Image: 14 1/8 x 9 3/8 in. (35.9 x 23.8 cm)
- Place
- Japan
- Period
- Meiji period · 19th century
- Main colour
- Gold & ochre · lightness 67, colourfulness 18
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











