[Explanation of a color]

The Nisemurasaki, and purple is red with a bluish dull similar. For purple by Lithospermum dye was expensive, that you bottoming an eye instead of Lithospermum, or piled up sappanwood and madder, and dyed to be purple in color was developed in the iron sappanwood had been made. These have been referred to as “Nise Murasaki” in that dyed color in Lithospermum for the “Hon Murasaki” and are similar to a purple. For this purple was forbidden, false color is now going dyed flourished early Edo period, but I feel the wisdom of the Edo people around you named the “fake” dare.

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