[Explanation of a color]

The Shironezu, is the elegant bright gray as in the silver color. The same color as “Shirogane-iro”. In color name from the Edo medium term, it was also referred to as “Shironezu” by omitting the ending. In “Sumi no Gosai” that indicates the density of the ink is, Shou, Nou, Ju, Tan, is the most pale falls “Sei” colors in the Sei. It should be noted that, as the other colors of the five colors there is a “Ginnezu”, “Sunezumi”, “Dobunezu” “Kuronezumi”.

For dyeing method of Shironezu, there is nothing that has been particularly marked. However, seen in “Konya Isabubrou Somemihoncho” of Edo medium-term as the staining name, it seems to be the color of dyed and acceleration to be the most lightly the Nezumizome. By the way, dyeing method of Nezumi-iro is to “Shoshoku Tezomesou”, “eggplant trees baked charcoal and pear, stated well on sliding in the tree, Re dyed when settle for and juice of dried anchovy little Nyusome, but in vinegar if and there gloss has been marked with the color also good. ”

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