Sakura (Japanese Four Seasons)
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern GYGYYWYYYWGRWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5721
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 12/08/2008 — Sakura (Japanese Four Seasons) (register-of-tartans, record)
One of a set of four tartans in 'The Four Seasons' collection to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first treaty between Japan and the UK (1858) and the arrival of Thomas Blake Glover, the Scottish Samurai, in Nagasaki (1859). The sakura (cherry blossom in Japanese) tartan represents Spring. For the further information please visit http://www.sakurascotland.co.uk. - pre 2008 — Sakura (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
A fashion tartan for the Japanese market. The white and pink colours come from the three hues of cherry blossom - white, pale pink and a stronger pink - 'sakura' being the Japanese for Cherry blossom..
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 12/08/2008 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5721
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7739
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3280
Thread count
R/12 W4 R50 DY4 W18 LG4 LGi8 LG4 W18 LG4 LGi30 DY4 LGi4 DY/8
One full sett is 324 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LG | #00C02C #00C02C | oklch(70.1% 0.226 144.3) |
| LG | #A0D090 #A0D090 | oklch(80.8% 0.101 138.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s14/r6w2r25dy2w9lg2lgi4lg2w9lg2lgi15dy2lgi2dy4x2lg2809145-lgi3204144/