There are many traditional colors in Japan and looking at those color names, we will find interesting things from that.
Many colors are named after flowers, trees and birds, but Why?
The reason is that people named colors after things around their life to recognize them.
We will notice that the color played important role in Japanese ancestor and it melted into Japanese life very much.
We will also notice that Japanese ancestor had a sense to enjoy colors through their life.
By comparison with ancestor modern peopel like us don't think colors are part of our life, because we don't sense colors in the same way with ancestor and our sense of value for colors has been changing.
For recent Japanese people colors are not for their enjoyment like our ancestor, but they are for standing out from another people and another things so colors are much more vivid.
And accepting many western life style also change Japanese colors much clearer.
The result that most of the recent people don't even know that there are many colors which are distinguished by certain names named by our ancestor.
Now let's look through my photos of traditional colors to find the character of modern Japanese people.
Many colors are named after flowers, trees and birds, but Why?
The reason is that people named colors after things around their life to recognize them.
We will notice that the color played important role in Japanese ancestor and it melted into Japanese life very much.
We will also notice that Japanese ancestor had a sense to enjoy colors through their life.
By comparison with ancestor modern peopel like us don't think colors are part of our life, because we don't sense colors in the same way with ancestor and our sense of value for colors has been changing.
For recent Japanese people colors are not for their enjoyment like our ancestor, but they are for standing out from another people and another things so colors are much more vivid.
And accepting many western life style also change Japanese colors much clearer.
The result that most of the recent people don't even know that there are many colors which are distinguished by certain names named by our ancestor.
Now let's look through my photos of traditional colors to find the character of modern Japanese people.
