[Explanation of a color]

The Negishi-iro, is the bitter light brown greenish. Edo period, because in the Negishi caught a fine plaster of sandy, have called a top coat walls in the soil and specially “Negishi-kabe”. The color of the Negishi wall is the origin of the “Negishi-iro”. By the way, as the color name related to the plaster there is also a color name “Namakabe-iro”.

Negishi and the Edo of place names. Current of Taito-ku, Tokyo. Place name in the Edo period, which corresponds to the foot of the northeast side of Ueno of the mountain was the attractions of quiet nightingale. The origin of the name of “Negishi” is, when I had entered the sea to the mountain of Ueno, it is said that because the banks had been followed as the root of the tree.

In color name brown or gray appeared in Edo medium term was popular, equipped with both of hue “Negishi-iro” was the bitter shades of the popular color calm.

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