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Light Brownish Olive & Blackish Olive +2

Plate 318 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Light Brownish Olive, Blackish Olive, Dusky Green, Deep Slate Green.

Light Brownish Olive

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Blackish Olive

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Dusky Green

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Deep Slate Green

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About this combination

Combination 318 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Light Brownish Olive, Blackish Olive, Dusky Green, Deep Slate Green, 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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