Irises

Dutch title: Irissen

Kōgyo Tsukioka · 1890 - 1900

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Palette

Indigo
40% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.0:1

Bone white
37% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.6:1

Slate blue
13% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.7:1

Sage
6% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.9:1

Pale blue-grey
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1

Butter
1% of the image
Green · text contrast 12.5:1

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

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Artist: Kōgyo Tsukioka
1869–1927
Date: 1890 - 1900
Type: Print
Medium: color woodcut, paper, zilverpoeder
Size: height 241 mm
Place: Japan
Period: 19th century
Themes: Flowers
Main colour: Blue · lightness 56, colourfulness 20

Rijksmuseum. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Dated 1900 or earlier: published before 1931 (Rijksmuseum: edmRights=http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/; image: Public Domai). Europe: Artist died 1927: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1998. 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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