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Kabairo

樺色/蒲色 · かばいろ

A reddish orange named doubly — for the bark of the birch and for the brown spike of the cattail, whose kanji share the same reading. Either way, the reference is warm, russet, and vegetal.

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Complementary and triadic companions, chosen from real traditional colors — not computed values.

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The namesake

樺の樹皮 蒲の穂 — what the name literally points to.

Cattail (gama) spikes by the water