[Explanation of a color]

The Kurumi-iro, it is a yellow-brown dyed using the skin, such as root or skin, of the real and bark of walnut. Staining of walnut has been done already in the Nara period, there is a description that has been dyed a paper called “walnut paper” to “Shosoin document”. In the Heian period, and it may be found “in the paper of walnut color of Goryeo …” or the “Tale of Genji”, “Toiu walnut color … the upcoming discerning thickness of colored paper” and “The Pillow Book”.

As the color of prone, and Ogle is named after the color of the walnut dyed by placement “list, the incense color, blue back,” the.

By the way, color names called Walnut in English, are referred to as “the color of the fruit of the walnut” rather than a walnut color.

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