Showa era · refined · warm · austere

English Red & Cerulian Blue

Plate 1 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — English Red, Cerulian Blue.

English Red

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Cerulian Blue

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About this combination

Combination 1 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of English Red, Cerulian Blue, 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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