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Light Green Yellow & Sea Green +2

Plate 291 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Light Green Yellow, Sea Green, Cobalt Green, Calamine BLue.

Light Green Yellow

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Sea Green

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Cobalt Green

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Calamine BLue

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About this combination

Combination 291 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Light Green Yellow, Sea Green, Cobalt Green, Calamine 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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