[Explanation of a color]

The Aoi-iro, is a bright purple grayish like Aoi Hana. Old color name from the time of peace. Aoi flowers white or red, bloom purple, yellow, mottled, such as a variety of colors, but it seems to have become a Aoi color is chosen purple was a popular color at the time.

Aoi is a perennial plant of the Malvaceae, I was old is used as a medicinal herb. By the way, it became the color names bloom the large flower in early summer of “Hollyhocks”. Just likened that to blossom around the rainy season, it is also referred to as the “rainy season Aoi”.

Prone overlaid as the color “table-Asaao, back-light purple” There is such, it was used as a summer color.

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