[Explanation of a color]

The Hashita-iro, it is purple in the middle of the purple shallow and deep purple. By “半” was written as the “端” in the sense of the middle.
Heian period, there is a provision that “much color” by the identification, dark colors like Shinku and Kokimurasaki was Kinjiki that are not allowed to use only the noble status, but Hashita which is located on the thin middle and colors such Asamurasaki contrast -iro is, is not included in the Kinjiki, use had been recognized is called Yurushiiro.
Hashita-iro was the meaning of half-baked colors not call it with any color originally, but it seems to have established itself as a color name for popular gathered in purple you are not going to Kinjiki.

As the color of prone, it is color that arranged “front and Asamurasaki, Asamurasaki back,” the.

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