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Five colours: blue, white, red, black and yellow.
Also known as: Five cardinal colours, Korean five colours, Blue white red black yellow, Five-direction colour scheme
Obangsaek is the Korean five-colour scheme, each colour assigned a direction, an element and a season, with yellow at the centre. It governs dancheong painting, ceremonial dress and food presentation — it is a system, not a palette.
Denotes the Korean five-colour scheme of blue, white, red, black and yellow, derived from the five-elements cosmology.
Contexts: History
Assigns each colour a cardinal direction, an element and a season, with yellow occupying the centre.
Contexts: History
Governs architectural painting, ceremonial dress, ritual objects and the arrangement of food, so its application is far wider than decoration.
Contexts: History
Five bands or fields of saturated blue, white, red, black and yellow, arranged with yellow at the centre and the others at the cardinal positions.