Values in Kitagawa Utamaro rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Kitagawa Utamaro balances warm and cool with remarkable evenness, giving the composition its characteristic vibrancy. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. #F1E7D6 at 32.5% of the palette: an overwhelming presence that pulls all other colours into its gravitational field. The most saturated colour, #A13F30, is reserved to 2.1% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. 77 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. In the context of Kitagawa Utamaro's full range of palettes, group 9 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.