[Explanation of a color]

The Ikkonzome is a pale red that is dyed with silk gauze 600g of dye. In the Heian period, as the safflower was expensive, the dark red dye was considered as “Kinjiki” and was prohibited from wearing without permission of the Emperor. However, in the case of a thin red dye such as one drop stain, it is permitted to wear something of low status as “Yurushiiro”, and from this, Ikkonzome’s alias is also called “Yurushiiro”.

There is another “Arazome” in the pale red color that is Yurushiiro, but this one was dyed with half of Ikkonzome’s safflowers. Also, “Imayouiro” was also light in color, but it seems to have gradually become darker as it becomes the future generation. By the way, in order to dye a bright reddish red like “Karakurenai”, it is said that 6 kg of safflower is required, and it was an amount that the cloth of one-dot dyeing could be dyed in twenty.

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