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This little book is all over the internet — people use it to pick their outfits, their art, even their room colors. But almost nobody knows the man behind it. His name was Sanzo Wada: a runaway kid who became one of Japan's greatest painters, shaped how an entire country uses color, and became the first Japanese person to win a competitive Academy Award. Then almost everything he made disappeared — his Olympic poster, his Oscar-winning film, his designs, even this book — before it all slowly came back. The book is A Dictionary of Color Combinations (配色事典) by Sanzo Wada, published by Seigensha. Volume 1 collects his original 348 color combinations; Volume 2 (the applied edition) adds seasonal palettes and surviving designs from the 1930s.