10 named colors · 2 combinations

Brown Color Combinations.

Earthy browns, chestnuts, and raw umber from the Wada tradition. Brown tones dominate the historical textile palette — koge (burnt), kogecha (chestnut brown), and tsuchi (soil) were the workday colors of Edo merchants and craftsmen.

Named colors

10 brown colors in the archive.

Combinations

2 brown-dominant color combinations.

Every palette in the archive where brown is the dominant hue — from Sanzo Wada's 348 historical plates plus editorial deep-dives.

Edo era

Kite Brown & Gold— 鳶と黄金

The warm brown of a kite's wing lit by afternoon gold.

Muromachi era

Scorched Brown & Unbleached— 焦茶と生成

The dark brown of scorched wood against unbleached hemp — quiet materials.

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