[Explanation of a color]

The Futaai, it is a dull bluish purple of repeated dyed safflower on you under dyed in indigo. The color name was given from the fact that Beniai also called in ancient times that of safflower, dyeing with indigo of two types of blue-green and red this indigo. By the way, this staining is done than from the Heian period, because the pale blue-green as young, to a lighter red as prime of life, two indigo had been present due to various age of the user. Niai is the color names come out well and “glory story” and “dragonfly diary”, also in literary works of the Heian era.

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