色の説明

根岸色（ねぎしいろ）とは、緑がかった渋い薄茶色のことです。江戸時代、根岸では砂質の上質な壁土がとれたので、その土で上塗りした壁を特別に『根岸壁 （ねぎしかべ）』と呼びました。その根岸壁の色が『根岸色』の由来です。ちなみに、壁土に関連す色名としては『生壁色 （なまかべいろ）』という色名もあります。

茶色や鼠色が流行した江戸中期に登場した色名で、両方の色相をそなえた『根岸色』は穏やかで渋い色合いが人気の色でした。

-読み：ねぎしいろ-

関連する色の紹介

• ■緑（みどり）の由来や色見本
• ■茶色（ちゃいろ）の由来や色見本
• ■鼠色（ねずみいろ）の由来や色見本
• ■生壁色（なまかべ）の由来や色見本

[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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