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Light Glaucous Blue & Dark Tyrian Blue

Plate 119 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Light Glaucous Blue, Dark Tyrian Blue.

Light Glaucous Blue

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Dark Tyrian Blue

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About this combination

Combination 119 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Light Glaucous Blue, Dark Tyrian 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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