[Explanation of a color]

The Karasake-iro, is the pink to orange did not like only the dried salmon. English name is “salmon pink”. The color named after the real part of the as dried salmon in the name. There is also a color named “Sakeiro,” but, here is the color of the body of raw salmon, it refers to the lighter color than “Inuisakeshoku”.

When the color of the “salmon pink” was transmitted from the West since the Meiji era, but it seems that it is the color name that was made by Japanese translation, it is more of today “salmon pink” is common. By the way, as the color of the pink system that orange did not like “Karasake-iro” There are such as “Colors coral color coral”, “Toki-iro” and.

Salmon, salmon eyes salmonid fish of salmon species. In Japan, the main river of Hokkaido and the Tohoku region, but spawning and run-up also in the western part of the Sea of ​​Japan side and the Kanto region of the river from central Honshu. Salmon in Japan is an important food fish since ancient times, those that were in Shiobiki and dried fish was the place of the tax, such as a conceded of the court and the shogunate.

Salmon has transmitted a lot of anecdotes, such as was the favorite food of the story and that of the Kamakura shogunate love also historical figures “Minamoto no Yoritomo” was impressed by the taste of salmon, Dewa local warring lord “Mogami Yoshiaki” .

Among Japan’s traditional colors with a number, there is color names named after the fish is something about “salmon”.

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