[Explanation of a color]

The Gofun-iro, refers to the color of the white pigment which is used in Japanese painting of “chalk” is the white yellowish very slightly. The thing you have to powdered baked shells, such as Ostrea denselamellosa, Gofun has been used or good color as primer, but also to issue a color to suit mixed with paint other.
Hakudo and Enpaku to make and bake the tin was also used as a chalk Nara era, since it turns black over time, it is harmful to humans, chalk the current seems to have come into use in the Kamakura period. By the way, “Go” I arrived from the nickname, which means the west of China once.

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