Japan Colors & Shapes Word Search

About this book

What color is GUNJO — and why did master dyers name a blue after a crowd of stones? What is the difference between a SEIGAIHA wave and a MIZUTAMA dot?

Japan Colors & Shapes Word Search: Large Print is a giant puzzle tour of the names of Japanese color and form: 300 large-print puzzles, 600 words, and every word carries a one-line note that teaches you something real as you play.

Travel the whole system of Japanese color: The traditional palette — indigo and navy blues, sky and water blues, reds and vermilion, pinks, purples of iris and wisteria, young-leaf greens, golds, tea browns, whites, greys and ink blacks — the formal names (KON, RURI, GUNJO, ENJI, SHION, KINARI…) that kimono, paintings and wagashi sweets still use today Shades and sources — pale tints and deep shades, metallic lustres, and colors named for flowers, fruit and food Patterns with names — dyeing arts, seigaiha waves, geometric lattices, plant and lucky-animal motifs, Edo komon, stripes and checks The words for shapes — circles and dots, corners and polygons, moons and clouds, spirals and waves, and the shapes of tools, buildings and gardens

Every lover of kimono, Japanese painting, gardens and sweets meets these names. This book turns them into a game you can finish.

300 puzzles on roomy 15 × 15 grids, one per page, in large print 600 words, all new: checked word-by-word against every previous volume in the series (overlap: zero) Every puzzle computer-verified — each hidden word appears exactly once; full highlighted solutions at the back Kindle Scribe edition: write and circle directly on the page

A companion on paper to the fashion volume: that book dresses the words; this one names their colors.