Japan creates a number of associations in our minds. The core of our ideas about Japan is that particular aesthetics that can even be called the poetry of color. We think of Japan primarily as a phenomenon from the realm of beauty; behind it is a refined taste, amazing decorativeness of Japanese culture, manifested in everything: the ability to see the landscape on the horizon, and the ability to convey this landscape on rice paper or silk ... Even the Japanese color designations are unusual: this is a whole system of meanings referring to images of nature. In addition to the main four colors (white, black, blue and red), called directly, as we used to, all the others sound like verses: “the reverse side of the grass”, “wings of the Japanese nightingale”, “gray heron”, “young bamboo” ...