Showa era · refined · warm

Sulphine Yellow & Pale Raw Umber +1

Plate 160 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Sulphine Yellow, Pale Raw Umber, Dark Medici Blue.

Sulphine Yellow

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Pale Raw Umber

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Dark Medici Blue

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About this combination

Combination 160 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Sulphine Yellow, Pale Raw Umber, Dark Medici 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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