About Teruko Sakurai
Teruko Sakurai is CEO of Tokyo Colors, a company focusing on design, colour consulting and corporate training. She advises product and advertising clients as well as colour science instructors at universities and design schools, in addition to producing her own teaching manuals. In 2014, she was the first Japanese to be certified as an instructor in the Swedish National Standard Natural Colour System (NCS). She is a member of the Japan Colour Society, a colour design master with the International Colour Design Association, and a certified lecturer for the Colour Certification Association and Colourist Association of Japan. She's the author of two bestselling Tuttle guides: Japanese Color Harmony Dictionary: Modern Colors of Japan and Japanese Color Harmony Dictionary: Traditional Colors of Japan.