JapanForum.com - question about japanese art and colors

I looked through color-charts from Japan and realized that, they differentiate so many of them, it's a bit scary.
They have more names given to only the tones of red than we have for all of our colors :) , and surely they use(d) it for different purposes with different meanings - as their names suggest it.

....http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Traditional_colors_of_Japan#Red-Violet_Series....
The page has a short but interesting side-note too.

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Originally Posted by steven (Post 839936)

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I know that in Tea Ceremonies guys will usually have a "cool" handkerchief (like purple or green) and women will usually have a "warm" colored one (orange or red). I don't know the meaning of this though.
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I wonder how much of the color stuff was imported through China and how much was imported from the west as far as Japan is concerned. I know that in China yellow was like the best color (according to my fashion class that I took to graduate college :o ).
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Purple isn't a mixture of cool and warm? I think indigo would be cold and red would be warm, but I'm not sure where is purple. - in my language purple is a warm color because it's closer to the red, that's why I'm asking...

As I know not every yellow but this certain golden one was attached to the royal family (to the emperor), and no one else could wear it. No wonder why that's the best.

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Originally Posted by dogsbody70 (Post 840059)

these are so colourful-- I love them.

variety is the spice of life.

I think he meant to make a nightmarish example. :)
But I love to see the how open-minded and optimist you are. :vsign: