a shade of grey on my cherry blossoms - sakuranezu |
a shade of grey on my willows - yanaginezu |
a shade of grey on my grapes - budoonezu |
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Introducing Traditional Japanese Colors
GREY in Haiku
With LINKS to other colors.
GREEN in Haiku
RED and Daruma san
YELLOW
WHITE in Haiku
Chart of 48 shades of tea (green) and 100 shades of gray of Old Edo
100 rats . yonjuuhatcha hyakunezu 四十八茶 百鼠
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a shade of grey on my violets - Edo Murasaki 江戸紫 a present from Sakuo san |
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3 comments:
Gabi san thank you so much.
I have never seen it before. I know the word [edo-murasaki Edo purple]
It appears as[ 773c59 ]
Wonderful !!
I will keep it my treasures box.
sakuo.
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Thanks a lot Sakuo san!
GABI
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Thank you for your precious information on Japanese color.
Those are very helpful to paint pictures of the Edo era.
I could proudly paint Edo with the color sample provided by you.
S.
. Colors of my Life .
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