Showa era · refined · warm · austere

Pompeian Red & Mineral Gray

Plate 30 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Pompeian Red, Mineral Gray.

Pompeian Red

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Mineral Gray

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About this combination

Combination 30 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Pompeian Red, Mineral Gray, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

This palette is inspired by the tradition of Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations, which cataloged combinations drawn from centuries of Japanese cultural life. The specific colors here use traditional shikisai names that have been in the public domain for generations.

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