December 8th Color Calendar Silver Soot Bamboo

The color calendar for December 8th is "Silver Soot Bamboo."
The antique color of bamboo smoked by the hearth is combined with the tranquility of silver to create a color that exudes the sophistication and elegance of winter.

December 8th Color Calendar

Silver-soot bamboo – Gin-susutake

"Smoked and glowing. The depths of winter."

"Silver soot bamboo" is a dark brown color that combines the soot bamboo color of bamboo that has been smoked for many years in the smoke of hearths and stoves with a hint of silver.
Smoky bamboo color is a traditional color that has been used since the Muromachi period, and was a popular color for connoisseurs in the Edo period, especially for kosode and haori.

Among them, silver soot bamboo has a white hue that is a combination of the dark red of sooty bamboo.
The pillars of an old house bathed in winter light, the lustre of well-used tea ceremony utensils,
It is a color that reflects the beauty created by the accumulation of time.

Silver soot bamboo in daily life

• Bamboo pillars smoked by the hearth • The glossy wood of an old tea cabinet • The color of roasted tea leaves just before they burn

Silver soot bamboo is a color that reflects the "beauty of well-used items."
It embodies a quiet depth and elegance that is connected to the "poetry of time" and "memory of touch" that WABISUKE values.

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remarks

• Silver soot bamboo is one of the variations of the "soot bamboo color" and is recorded to have been popular around the Kyoho era (1716-1736).
• "Gin" means "whitish" and was used in contrast to Kinsutoku (yellowish).