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Cream Yellow & Olive Ocher +2

Plate 278 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Cream Yellow, Olive Ocher, Cossack Green, Dusky Green.

Cream Yellow

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Olive Ocher

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Cossack Green

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Dusky Green

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About this combination

Combination 278 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Cream Yellow, Olive Ocher, Cossack Green, Dusky Green, 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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