[Explanation of a color]

The Hon-Murasaki is vivid purple dyed with purple root dyed. Purple root dyeing has been dyed with the roots of “murasaki” of Murashidaceae, which is an old dyeing method of “purple”.

In the Edo era, when the use of expensive ‘purple’ by the purple root dyed is forbidden by the “luxury ban inhibit” which prohibits luxury, the purple color dyed from plants such as “Suo” and “Akane” among the people of Edo “Nise-Murasaki It becomes a big epidemic.

For this “Nise-Murasaki”, it is the name of “Hon-Murasaki” that distinguished colors such as “Edo-Murasaki” and “Ima-Murasaki” dyed with purple root in the sense of “real purple” It eventually became a color name.

“Hon-Murasaki” that Ichiii people could not wear at that time. It may be that color name contains the thought of the admiration for real thing or envy.

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