[Explanation of a color]

The Renga-iro,The brick color, it is a brown dull reddish, such as red brick Akarenga. It is a color such as red iron oxide, but it is relatively new color name that was born after the Meiji.
After the Meiji Restoration began to brick is manufactured in Japan, new red brick color that came from the West, it is probably because it was plush color dancing mind for the time of the Japanese, actively using the literary and intellectuals was I was epidemic.

Building of red brick building, which was built many a symbol of civilization and enlightenment, we will because of the low earthquake resistance gradually came to be used as decoration.

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