[Explanation of a color]

The Kikuchiba is yellowish brown like the color of a dead leaf of yellowish late autumn. “Akakuchiba”, “Aokuchiba” together with “Kuchiba-iro” one of the phase transformation colors. “Usukuchiba” is the same color.

Kikuchiba is an old color name, “Ukitsuku Monogatari” in Heian literature “Kikuchiba’s Nagisa Makoto Kasane”, “Pillow child” is “Kikuchiba woven fabrics, lightweight clothing such as thin materials” and its name Yes.

According to the mansion history book “Rekiseifukushokukou” in the Meiji era, “It is Kuchinashi dying Akane or Beni and dyeing Kandou or Kikuchiba”, it turns out that it is red and yellow.

In addition, the fabric Kikuchiba was woven with yellow on the warp and pink on the weft.

By the way, as the color of Kasane, “Table · Kuchiba, Back · Kuchiba” is arranged, it is the color of clothes at the end of autumn / early winter.

Dyeing mixed with crimson in the Heian era has been forbidden since the color of the deep subsidiary mixed with crimson is confused with “Ouni” of “Kinjiki”. Still, because the vivid coloration of the branch dyeing was popular, it seems that it was dyed with another name like “Kikuchiba” and was worn.

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