Pink color or Momoiro (桃色): it’s Springtime!
Pink color has several names in Japanese: ピンク (pinku) – the most common expression 桃色 (momoiro) – rare (peachy shade…
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Category: COLORS
Samurai Blue: where to buy Indigo items (in Japan & Online)?
Samurai Blue (侍青) is known as: Indigo, “Color of Love” or “Japan Blue”. The color is used in a lot…
Samurai Blue: book your Indigo dying experience in Japan (in English)!
Samurai Blue (侍青) is known as: Indigo, “Color of Love” or “Japan Blue”. It still shapes the Japanese aesthetic perception…
Samurai Blue (侍青): Indigo, the color of Love
The color of the mystical world, a miraculous plant for health and protection (and edible!). There is a color known…
Murasaki (紫): the forbidden color
The purple color is called murasaki (紫 ● むらさき) and its kanji is a combination of the radical 此 and…
Ao (青): when blue was green (and violet)
How to be inexperienced, dark and pale at the same time. The blue color is called ao (青 ● あお)…
Kuro (黒): a color for sacredness and mundanity.
From evil and fear to marriage and enlightenment. One color and both sides of the coin. The black color is…
Shiro (白): one color, a double-edged meaning.
Of spirituality, weddings, deaths, seppuku and purity. The white color is called shiro (白 ●しろ) and this beautiful kanji represents…
Iro (色): one word, many colors.
Color has many meanings! (iro wa imi ga iroiro aru ● 色 は 意味 が いろいろ ある) In fact, colors…