[Explanation of a color]

The Katsu-iro, even darker than the dark blue, it is a dark indigo appreciable black. Same color as “Fukaai”. Also will be read as “Katsu-iro” “Kachin-iro”. “Kachi” of color names, comes from tapping the cloth in order to instill darker indigo, character of “搗色”, “褐色” was devoted.
Sengoku warlords of age prefer spartan of indigo, from what you’ve good luck by applying the letter of “勝” to “Katsu” is color name. Notation, such as dyed armor of leather and fabric in this color “Kachiiro Odoshi” and “Kachiiro no Hitatare” is seen everywhere in such military epic.
By the way, in the war Nisshin-Russo-Japanese “Kon-iro” of the same color has been the Kachiiro

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