Seiji

The story of Seiji

Seiji (青磁) is the celadon green of the Chinese-influenced Korean and Japanese ceramic traditions. The name refers literally to the iron-glaze celadon ware — fired with a thin coat of iron-bearing slip that vitrifies into a pale grey-green. Centuries of tea-ceremony and incense-ceremony objects have established the colour as inseparable from quiet refinement.

Modern usage: skincare and wellness brands, hospitality identity, ceramics, anywhere the brief asks for 'green that doesn't read as nature.' Seiji is one of the colours that makes a Japandi palette feel Japanese rather than just Scandinavian-with-green — the cool axis of a properly executed Japandi system almost always passes through this hue.

See Seiji in the Japanese Color Glossary →