#iki

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Roso Tresno Iki: Kasetyan Ingkang Abadi

Roso Tresno Iki: Kasetyan Ingkang Abadi

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Dhèwèké Seakan Nolakku, Kepriyé Iki?

Dhèwèké Seakan Nolakku, Kepriyé Iki?

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💙: Happy New Year 2026!!! It's the year of the horse 🐴 Let's give it our all!!! (Idk how to translate the pun 😭)

💚: Happy New Year~!! Whatever will happen this year, let's have tons of fun okay?

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"There is perhaps no color as iki as brown. This is also evident from the expression 'omoisomecha' (an Edo-style kimono of captivating brown). Brown has indeed countless names, depending on its various shades. To list some names in vogue during the Edo period, among those derived from the abstract quality of the color itself: whitish, bluish-gray, yellowish, smoky, burnt, dark, and dark amber brown; then, among those derived from things of this color: nightingale brown, finch brown, kite brown, smoked bamboo brown, silver bamboo brown, burnt bamboo brown, chestnut brown, water chestnut brown, chestnut peel brown, clove brown, green algae shoot brown, unglazed earthenware brown; finally, among those derived from the names of Kabuki actors who favored them, Shikan brown, Rikan brown, Shikō brown, Rokō brown, and Baikō brown. So, to those who ask what color brown is, I would answer that it is the luminous hue that has passed from red to yellow through orange, which has darkened and reduced its saturation. It is therefore the color produced by the decrease in luminosity. And it is iki because, thanks to its luminous hue on one hand and the decrease in saturation on the other, it expresses a seduction that knows the meaning of renunciation and a certain sensual nonchalance."

(Kuki Shūzō, The structure of Iki「いき」の構造, 1930)

Image: Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770), Mitate Ono no Tofu