Enjoying Japanese Life With Traditional Colors

Have you ever heard of akane (madder), gunjou (ultramarine), edo-murasaki (royal purple), sango (coral), or *sora-iro (sky-blue)? These beautiful colors have been used in Japanese art for centuries.
Enjoying Japanese Life with Traditional Colors (Dentoshoku de Tanoshimu Nihon no Kurashi) is a color catalog from the long-standing Kyoto paint shop Ueda Esou that introduces 220 such colors selected by specialists with illustrations to help provide a more complete understanding of Japanese aesthetics through 207 A5 pages.
ContentsChapter 1: Representative Traditional ColorsChapter 2: Traditional Color Names Originating from FlowersChapter 3: Traditional Color Names Originating from PlantsChapter 4: Traditional Color Names Originating from AnimalsChapter 5: Traditional Color Names Derived from Colors & PaintChapter 6: Traditional Colors of Other Origin