Showa era · refined · warm

Light Brown Drab & Etruscan Red +1

Plate 185 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Light Brown Drab, Etruscan Red, Pale Lemon Yellow.

Light Brown Drab

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Etruscan Red

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Pale Lemon Yellow

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About this combination

Combination 185 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Light Brown Drab, Etruscan Red, Pale Lemon Yellow, 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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