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Shells by Ayaoka Yûshin

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Dutch title: Schelpen (English title translated by InspiredBy)

Ayaoka Yûshin · 1880 - 1890

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Palette

Parchment
 34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.1:1
Madder
 34% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.7:1
Bone white
 19% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.7:1
Fawn
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1
Rose
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.0:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

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
Ayaoka Yûshin
1846–1910
Date
1880 - 1890
Type
Print
Medium
color woodcut, paper
Size
height 223 mm x width 287 mm
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 31

Rijksmuseum. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Dated 1890 or earlier: published before 1931 (Rijksmuseum: edmRights=http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/; image: Public Domai). Europe: Artist died 1910: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1981. Last checked 2026-10-31 (rights statement is public domain: yes). Image released by the Rijksmuseum as public domain (CC0). Licence rules

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