Yanagi-Iro
 
Toku ni Nihonjin ni...
Posted By: Tom Hall <Hall023038@aol.com>
Date: Sunday, 15 July 2001, at 5:53 p.m.
 
Nihongo de "yanagi-iro" to iu shokumei ga
aru no deshyou ka. Taiheiyou Sensou no
toki, hiroku shirarete imashita?
 
Posted By: Elephtheriou George <arawasi_g@hotmail.com>
Date: Sunday, 15 July 2001, at 9:43 p.m.
 
The color you are asking about is included in the book called "Iro no tetso" (The color guide) published by "Shogakukan" in Showa 61 (1986). A colour chip is also included.
 
Domo,
George
 
Posted By: Tom Hall <Hall023038@aol.com>
Date: Sunday, 15 July 2001, at 11:06 p.m.
 
Dear Yorgos,
Thank you for your help. I don't have that book.
Can you describe the color?
 
Posted By: Elephtheriou George <arawasi_g@hotmail.com>
Date: Monday, 16 July 2001, at 8:50 p.m.
 
The best would be to send you a scan but you know my scanner problem...
The book I have is quite old and doesn't have "many" colors. But surprisingly it has "Ame Iro" and "Aodake Iro"! I'm trying to find a better Japanese color catalogue with more colors. If I have something, I'll let you know.
Meanwhile, in the book the color is described:
Color resembling the color of the very fresh/new leaves of the willow (Yanagi). Dull/dark yellow green.
I will try to find an approximate FS number and get back to you again.
 
Domo,
Yorgos
 
Posted By: Elephtheriou George <arawasi_g@hotmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 17 July 2001, at 8:16 p.m.
 
The "Iro no Tetso" gives a Munsell number. I don't have a Munsell deck so I don't know if it's accurate, correct or whatever. Anyway, its: 5GY 7/5.5.
I checked in my FS deck and couldn't find an exact match to the color chip that is included in this book. The closest I could come up with is: darker than 13670 and 24552. Maybe a mixture of these two colors...
Yesterday we bought a new Japanese color guide, called: Iro no namae jiten (Dictionary of color names).
In it, Yanagi iro is included too but the color chip is quite different. I could find an exact match in the FS deck and it is 14449 or 24449. The book gives the following mixture for the color: Cyan 42%, Magenta 12%, Yellow 61%, Black 0% used for the printing of the color chip.
Hope all the above are helpful enough. As to whether this color was used during the war or not....
 
Domo,
George
 
Posted By: Rob Graham <ReiShikiSenGuy@aol.com>
Date: Wednesday, 18 July 2001, at 8:15 p.m.
 
Where was this colors used?
Sharing the Munsell match, here's the color, digitally approximated using Munsell's color conversion...
Yanagi Iro
 
Posted By: Elephtheriou George <arawasi_g@hotmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, 18 July 2001, at 8:29 p.m.
 
Domo arigato gozaimasu Rob. The color is very very close. As I mentioned in my other posting, the two books don't agree on their color chips. But the Munsell match you so kindly shared, is somewhere in the middle.
I have no idea if this color was used during the war. Hall san asked about this color....
 
Domo,
George
 
Posted By: Rob Graham <ReiShikiSenGuy@aol.com>
Date: Thursday, 19 July 2001, at 7:19 a.m.
 
George:
It seems a brighter, slightly greener variation of "Nakajima interior gray green" from Aeromaster.
It also looks like "Mid-'70s Avocado Green."
I don't know if Greece has had this, but here in the US, back in the '70s, "avocado green" was a popular color in homes, and refrigerators, stoves, ovens, porcelain-coated sinks, Formica countertops, Linoleum. and everything were available in that color. The fad lasted about 3 years, and when you shop for a house, you can often tell when it was last redecorated if it is in this color -- it's either aging and due for a redecorating job, or it was recently done (due to the resurgence of '70s things).
 
Take care,
--Rob
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