What is the traditional Japanese color "ash-white"?
Ash-white is a soft white, like ash. It is also called "haijiro." While it refers to a soft color that faintly exudes warmth, it is also used to describe scenes that have lost their vitality or scenes that evoke death. The English term "off-white" also refers to a white that contains a slight color, but it is not a specific color, but rather a word that describes a state that is close to white but not completely white. Ash-white is a unique color that combines the impressions of both life and death, and has been depicted as a distinctive white in which gentleness and eeriness coexist.
Grayish-white = kaihakushoku Ashy white, while belonging to the white family, possesses a unique presence and sometimes appears as a symbolic color in literary expression. "Ashy white" is pronounced "kaihakushoku."
DIC Traditional Japanese Colors: C0 M2 Y14 K5 / R242 G237 B208 / Ash White
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