Black melon

Dutch title: Kuroki uri (English title translated by InspiredBy)

Kamisaka Sekka · 1909-05-05

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Palette

Ivory
53% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.1:1

Pewter
25% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

Terracotta
9% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.6:1

Slate blue
9% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.4:1

Putty
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.8:1

Sage
2% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.0:1

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: Kamisaka Sekka
1866–1942
Date: 1909-05-05
Type: Print
Medium: color woodcut, paper
Size: height 302 mm x width 460 mm
Place: Kyoto
Period: 20th century
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 70, colourfulness 15

Rijksmuseum. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Dated 1909 or earlier: published before 1931 (Rijksmuseum: edmRights=http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/; image: Public Domai). Europe: Artist died 1942: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2013. Last checked 2026-10-31 (rights statement is public domain: yes). Image released by the Rijksmuseum as public domain (CC0). Licence rules