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Originally Posted by fluff
hello ^^
can anyone tell me please what colors are "forbidden" in Japanese art/culture ??
I mean like white that symbolize death ( I've heard today that purple got the same effect...but I thought it's only in Thailand).
so what are the colors that you don't see naturally in Japanese art??
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Certain colours may infer some meaning, but there's no real 'banned' colours. You can give someone a white item as a gift and they're not going to freak out. Even if 'white' is traditionally associated with death in asia, most people wear black or muted to funerals nowadays anyway. There are some styles where the colours used are fairly particular; especially with kimono where colour combinations have names and seasons and meanings etc, but that's fairly specialist knowledge; the average man on the street isn't going to know it by heart.
Ukiyoe also traditionally uses fairly limited colours per painting as they were designed to be mass produced. The Great Wave painting consists of barely 5 tones.