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Traditional Japanese pigments are an insight into pre-industrial revolution ways of making and using colors. The whites are unusual in that they are used for various reflective and textural qualities as well as whiteness.
Whites - ground quartz crystal (sui sho matsu), mica (unmo), calcite (hokai matsu), shell white (go fun).
Blues - coarse azurite (gunjo), fine azurite (byankugun), indigo (ai)
Greens and turquoise - malachite (byaku roku), azurite rich (yakigunroku), malachite rich (shin sha) burnt azurite and malachite mixture,
Yellow - yellow ochre (ado)
Reds - cochineal red (enji), cochineal crimson, red earth (benigara), red lean (tan), red (hon shu goku akakuchi), vermilion.
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