色の説明

白菫色（しろすみれいろ）とは、白菫の花のようなほとんど白に近い紫色のことです。　菫の花は万葉の頃より愛された草花ですが、『菫色 （すみれいろ）』が一般色名になるのは明治以降。そんな『菫色』を薄くしたような『白菫色』は、さらに近代になってできた色名です。

白菫色のような明るい『紫色』は昔から人気で、現在でも女性の着物の色などとして大変好まれています。 ちなみに同じような色の薄い紫色としては『霞色 （かすみいろ）』があります

-読み：しろすみれいろ-

関連する色の紹介

• ■赤（あか）の由来や色見本
• ■紅（べに）の由来や色見本
• ■茜（あかね）の由来や色見本
• ■蘇芳（すおう）の由来や色見本

[Explanation of a color]

The Shirosumire-iro, is the purple close to almost white, such as the Shirosumire of flowers. Violet flowers is a flower that was loved from the time of Manyo, “Sumire-iro” or later become a general color name Meiji. Such “Sumire-iro” as was thin “Shirosumire-iro” is the color name Deki become even more modern.

Shirosumire in perennial Violaceae Viola, and distributed more in the wet grass of the cold area of Honshu north. The shape of the flowers and leaves are very similar to violet, you put a white flower in the spring and early summer.

In popular bright like Shirosumire-iro “purple” are from the old days, we have been very favored as such as the color of today women of kimono. By the way, as the same kind of pale purple there is a “Kasumi-iro”.

-read: Shirosumire-iro-