Golden Tea Color
A golden-brown tea color, like the hue of brewed Sencha, warm, elegant, and subtle
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💡 Use Cases
Sencha Tea Utensils
The glaze color for tea pots and cups. Golden Tea Color makes the tea vessel a warm and tranquil visual centerpiece of the tea session.
Independent Bookstore Decor
The warm wood-toned Golden Tea Color for bookshelves and reading areas, turning the bookstore into a reassuring spiritual sanctuary.
Autumn/Winter Fashion Design
The classic color for coats and scarves. In the cold seasons, Golden Tea Color provides the wearer with a comforting sense of being wrapped up warmly.
Vintage Furniture Leather
Leather dyeing for sofas and chairs. Golden Tea Color imbues the furniture with the mellowed, warm memory of use.
📜 Origin & History
Golden Tea Color is a uniquely Japanese color name born from the popularization of Sencha tea culture during the Edo period. Previously, Matcha ceremony colors leaned towards blue-greens. The broth of Sencha, however, is golden-brown. Literati and intellectuals coined the term 'Golden Tea' for it, incorporating it into the system of traditional Japanese colors.
By the mid-Edo period, the literati's Sencha enjoyment became a trend. The monk Baisao traveled around Kyoto with his portable tea set, serving Sencha to all he met. The Golden Tea Color of the brew, swaying in blue-and-white porcelain cups, was regarded by tea masters and literati as an elegant pastime. Golden Tea Color thus became a representative color of literati refinement.
During the late Edo period's Kasei culture era, Golden Tea Color was widely used in women's attire. Kitagawa Morisada's encyclopedic work 'Morisada Manko' records that the haori jackets of Edo's stylish women were popular in Golden Tea Color, often paired with dark green linings—a chic choice for those with refined taste.
From the end of the Shogunate to the Meiji period, Golden Tea Color expanded from the tea broth hue to an overall lifestyle aesthetic. Potters fired tea utensils with Golden Tea glaze, and dye houses released meisen silk in Golden Tea Color. It became an everyday color from the people of Edo to those of Tokyo.
In the Showa period, the Mingei (Folk Craft) movement's leading potter, Shoji Hamada, used a Golden Tea glaze for his everyday ceramics. Soetsu Yanagi praised it as having the 'beauty of use.' Shedding Edo's flamboyance, Golden Tea Color settled into the simple forms of folk art, becoming a classic warm hue in Japanese life aesthetics.