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Showa era · refined · warm · austere

Golden Yellow & Warm Gray

Plate 81 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Golden Yellow, Warm Gray.

Golden Yellow

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Warm Gray

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About this combination

Combination 81 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Golden Yellow, Warm 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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