From Cohana’s Basic Colors: BARAIRO

Japanese traditional colors show the beauty of the Japanese sense of color.
Plants, trees, flowers... rich nature and things around life... Japanese people have sensed the various colors in the changing seasons, named and embraced them in our daily lives.
It is said that there are more than 460 traditional Japanese colors, reflecting the richness of the Japanese sense of color. From among these many traditional Japanese colors, we have selected 5 colors as the basic colors for Cohana, focusing on colors that convey the Japanese beauty.

For Cohana's products, we use simple color names Yellow, Pink, Green, Blue and Gray. But each color has a Japanese color name from Japanese traditional color name.

Today we feature Pink; a story about BARAIRO from one of the Cohana's five basic colors and recommended products in BARAIRO color.

BARAIRO is the color of rose: Bright pink or light red. "薔薇 Bara" means rose and "色 iro" means color in Japanese. It's a bright and gorgeous rose pink color brings a happy peaceful mood.

In Japan, the BARAIRO, the color of rosy pink, is often attached to words such as “life” or “future” to express the happiness and the state of contentment or hopefulness.
It is said that wild kinds of roses originally existed in Japan. New kinds were imported from China during the Heian period (794-1185) and were cultivated for ornamental purposes and enjoyed by the aristocrats.
Roses appears in the old leading poetry collections and literature of the time.

Aristocrats during the Heian period (794-1185) used a combination of layered kimono colors to express seasonal beauty. The combination of red and purple called “Sobigasane” that expressed Roses, which indicates roses have been loved by the Japanese people since ancient times.
It is said that the Japanese started to call roses “Bara” instead of "Sobi" after the Meiji period (1868-1912) when roses from the West were introduced to Japan.

BARAIRO tools are bring gentle feelings and healings that make your heart flourish. 

The color has the power to stimulate rich sensibility in the time of handwork and help intuitive inspirations.

Please add a Barairo tool to your sewing collection to help you get into the creative mode during your handwork time! Of course, we also recommend coordinating your sewing box with Barairo tools.