Showa era · refined · warm

Cream Yellow & Vandyke Brown +1

Plate 192 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Cream Yellow, Vandyke Brown, Deep Violet / Plumbeous.

Cream Yellow

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Vandyke Brown

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Deep Violet / Plumbeous

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About this combination

Combination 192 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Cream Yellow, Vandyke Brown, Deep Violet / Plumbeous, 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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