Heian era
Cherry Blossom & Young Bamboo— 桜と若竹
The softest pink of cherry blossoms set beside young bamboo green — spring, captured.
Collection · 8 palettes
Pastel Color Palettes
The soft register of Japanese color — sakura, haze, and spring mist.
Japanese pastel is not the saccharine variety of greeting-card pink — it is the muted, often grey-shifted softness of seasonal pigments: sakura (cherry blossom), kasumi (spring haze), mizu (water blue), usumomo (pale peach). The light comes from the white paper showing through diluted mineral pigments, not from saturation. These palettes work for beauty, wellness, lifestyle brands, and any digital interface that needs to breathe.
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- All 378 palettes (348 Wada + 30 editorial) in five formats
- Figma design tokens (W3C-spec JSON, drag into any file)
- Tailwind v4 + v3 configs — drop into any project
- CSS custom properties — every plate, one stylesheet
- 378 museum SVG plates — print-ready at any size
- Full JSON — colors, names, eras, moods, dominant hues
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