色の説明

紅梅色（こうばいいろ）とは、早春に咲く紅梅の花の色のようなやや紫みのある淡い紅色のことです。色名の由来は文字通り紅梅の花の色から。

『紅梅色』はキク科ベニバナを用いた紅花染の一種で、その色の濃さにより『濃紅梅 （こきこうばい）』『中紅梅 （なかこうばい）』『淡紅梅 （うすこうばい）』などのバリエーションがあります。ただ、文学においての『紅梅』といえば主に『中紅梅』を指しました。また襲 （かさね）の色目の名でもあり、「表・紅色、裏・蘇芳 （すおう）」を配しかなり強い赤を表現しています。

また江戸時代後期の『貞丈雑記』には、紅梅色はかつて『桃色』に近い色であったが、近年は黒っぽい『紫紅色』のこととなっていると記されており、江戸期には濃い紫紅色を紅梅色と呼んでいたことが分かります。

初春に春の訪れを告げるように花を咲かせる紅梅。その花の色である『紅梅色』もまた淡い紅色が春をイメージし、今も昔も女性に人気の色名です。

紅梅

-読み：こうばいいろ-

関連する色の紹介

• ■紅色（べにいろ）の由来や色見本
• ■蘇芳（すおう）の由来や色見本
• ■桃色（ももいろ）の由来や色見本

[Explanation of a color]

The Koubai-iro, it is the pale pink that is somewhat Mino purple, such as the color of plum blooming in early spring flowers. Origin of the color name is literally from the color of light pink flowers.

“Koubai-iro” is a kind of safflower dyed using the Asteraceae safflower, there are variations such as “Kokikoubai” “Nakakoubai” “Usukoubai” by the depth of its color. However, it was the Lord speaking of “Koubai” of the literature refers to the “Nakakoubai”. In addition, there is also in the name of color of Kasane, it represents a fairly strong red decor “table-red, back · Suou”.

In addition to the “Sadatake miscellaneous notes” of the late Edo period, but light pink was the color close once in the “pink”, in recent years it has been marked When has become a thing of the dark, “magenta”, in the Edo period You can see that it was called light pink to dark purple red.

Plum Rosaceae Prunus of deciduous tree. China but until the Nara period in origin had been imported, white plum is transmitted by the envoys, still it was generalized by also transmitted plum in the Heian period. Sei Shōnagon also “Pillow Book” in the “Most Medetaki thing,” “tree of flowers, the other also like plum respiratory” have fried.

Hongmei flowering to tell the coming of spring in early spring. That is the color of the flower “Koubai-iro” also pale red is the image of a spring, it is also now a long time ago also popular color name to the woman.

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