[Explanation of a color]

The Kachiiro, darker than dark blue, it is the deep blue of appreciable black. I will be read as “Kachin-iro”. The reading of Kanji as “Kasshoku” when written as “brown” In modern times, it refers to the dark brown or reddish brown, but it was that blue-black in Japan of the early modern period and the Middle Ages.

The color name “Kashi” has come from the fact that you and a cloth in order to soak the rich indigo, “搗色”, “搗色”, “勝色” was devoted. In addition, since the reading of “Kachi = wins” was preferred among samurai, I will be common in such military epic notation such as “Kachiiro Odoshi” and “Kachiiro HItatare”.

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