[Explanation of a color]

The Imamurasaki, it is a vivid purple bluish. Are known as “Edomurasaki” In general, the color of the headband of Kabuki “Sukeroku” is wrapped around the head is this color.
Bluish for “edomurasaki”, purple reddish was called “Kyoshi”. There is a purple dull called “Kodaimurasaki” in Kyoshi this system, it seems to have come to be called “Imamurasaki” for that color.
As dyeing, I was dyed in sappanwood on top of indigo under.

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