ACROMATIC COLOR
(Black, White and Gray)
The range of achromatic color is very wide. Many grayish colors were expressed as the colors of Japanese ink or mouse and they don’t give a pleasurable impression, but the color variation is very wide. In Edo era, it became fashionable as well as brown.
*An example of coordination of kimono is here.
Typical achromatic colors and their Japanese name
| ankokushoku / shikkoku | |
| kuro/ rouiro | |
| shikokushoku | |
| sumiiro / sumizome | |
| koinezu | |
| aozumi | |
| keshizumiiro | |
| kurotsurubami | |
| kuromidori | |
| akazumi | |
| kenpouiro /kenpouzome /yoshiokazome | |
| kuriiro (*) | |
| nibiiro | |
| aonibi | |
| rikyuunezumi | |
| sabinezu | |
| nezumiiro /haiiro / namariiro | |
| ginnezumi / suzuiro | |
| chanezu | |
| usuzumiiro | |
| sakuranezu | |
| umenezu | |
| usunezu | |
| fujinezumi | |
| usunibiiro / usunibuiro | |
| sunairo | |
| zougeiro | |
| kaihakusoku | |
| enpakushoku | |
| shiro | |
| nyuuhakushoku | |
| umenezumi | |
| sakuranezumi | |
| shironezumi / shiroganeiro | |
| akuiro | |
| sunezumi | |
| dobunezui | |
| aisumicha | |
| binroujizome | |
| utsubushiiro | |
| soushinezu |
(*) different from “kuriiro” in the Brown categorie.
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