[Explanation of a color]

The Kurotsurubami, it is a black blue taste that were developed in the iron mordant those infused with crushed conker tinged. By the way, Hijaz oak, horse chestnut is the yellow horse chestnut tan in roasting lye. Black, such as dyed in the mud was the color of clothes a person humble to wear, but the black horse chestnut dyed by acorn is used for mourning dress of nobles as well as black oxide, and has been handed down as a traditional color name. The “clothing Horse Chestnut” in “Manyoshu” is the clothing of this black horse chestnut color.

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