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Showa era · refined · warm

Old Rose & Rainette Green +1

Plate 162 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Old Rose, Rainette Green, Lilac.

Old Rose

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Rainette Green

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Lilac

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About this combination

Combination 162 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Old Rose, Rainette Green, Lilac, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 162 of Wada's 348 anchors Old Rose, Rainette Green and Lilac in the red family — a 3-colour grouping with a refined, warm character, recorded in the Showa-era volumes of Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations, where these shikisai names have sat in the public domain for generations. Its strongest pairing — Old Rose on Rainette Green — reaches a contrast ratio of 1.19:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.

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