Tsuitate no Danjo

Tsuitate no Danjo (1797) by Kitagawa Utamaro. Its palette is led by bone (#d1bfaa, 59%) and charcoal (#292a27, 13%), with accents of dark grey, putty and ivory. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.

Color reading

Brown covers more than two-thirds of the print. Its most vivid color, light red #CA6E62, takes up 6% of it.

Palette

#d1bfaa MG 171 bone 58.8% of canvas
#292a27 MG 222 charcoal 12.9% of canvas
#636d6d MG 216 dark grey 12.1% of canvas
#9d9283 MG 173 putty 6.9% of canvas
#ca6e62 MG 015 light red 5.8% of canvas
#f4e7d7 MG 200 ivory 3.5% of canvas

Color families

Brown 69%, White 11%, Gray 7%, Red 6%, Black 6%

Measurements

Lightness: 0.69
Contrast: 0.57
Vividness: 0.033
Warmth: +1.00
Complexity: 184 cells
Hue range: 0.30
Focus: 0.10

Composition

58% of the visual weight is in the left half, 66% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.00 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 34% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 24% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.

Details

Date: 1797
Medium: Woodblock print
Size: 37.2 × 26.0 cm
Genre: ukiyo-e
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston

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