Festival Procession in the Eastern Capital

Festival Procession in the Eastern Capital, by Utagawa Yoshiiku, 1871, from the Hood Museum of Art - PR.995.23.8abc.

Colors in this work

Artist: Utagawa Yoshiiku
Date: 1871
Holding institution: Hood Museum of Art
Palette: Limestone Dust · Gray family · #D4C5B9 · 29%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #A8B39F · 14%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #5B5F6E · 14%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #7E948F · 10%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #7D6C5A · 8%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #9D8872 · 7%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #889DB1 · 5%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #B5A18C · 4%

Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #B5B197 · 2%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #38352D · 2%

Flax Ground · Yellow family · #D2B990 · 1%

Limestone Honey · Yellow family · #CDB274 · <1%

Silverpoint Paper · Gray family · #D5C5C2 · <1%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #685B63 · <1%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #AAB6CA · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #C6B3B5 · <1%

Slate Night · Black family · #252529 · <1%

Linen Gesso · White family · #F1E4D8 · <1%

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Image provider: wikimedia-commons
License: Public domain
Credit: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

11 tags

Parties and Celebrations Both · 99%

The title identifies a festival procession, and the image shows an organized public celebration with banners, parasols, floral emblems, and a central portable structure.
Crowds Both · 99%

Numerous participants and spectators occupy the foreground and middle ground, forming a large collective procession.
Cityscapes and City Scenes Both · 93%

The title places the scene in the Eastern Capital, while the image visibly includes bridges, water, waterfront structures, and buildings surrounding the procession.
Text Visual · 99%

Japanese characters are prominent across the upper margin and on many of the vertical banners carried through the scene.

Ukiyo-e Interpretive · 84%

The artist and date, together with the panoramic multi-panel format, flattened color, inscribed cartouches and banners, and depiction of public spectacle, are strongly consistent with ukiyo-e practice; the supplied style metadata does not explicitly name it.

Dense Composition Visual · 98%

The composition is densely populated, with overlapping figures, banners, standards, parasols, and architectural elements distributed across the image.
Flatness Visual · 95%

Large areas of relatively unmodulated color and sharply outlined forms create a visibly flat graphic treatment.
Patterns Visual · 93%

Repeated floral emblems, parasols, banners, garments, and architectural details create recurring decorative motifs across the composition.

Woodcut and Linocut Both · 98%

Canonical metadata classifies the work as a Japanese woodblock print, and the image shows the flat color fields, strong contours, and printed graphic structure associated with a woodblock process.

Japanese Art Both · 99%

The artist, title language, Japanese script, and canonical classification identify the work as Japanese; its visual format is consistent with nineteenth-century Japanese printmaking.

Utagawa Yoshiiku. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

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