[Explanation of a color]

The Suo, It is the red-tinged black taste, write “蘇方色” as “蘇枋色”. It is a thing in the name of the plant as a dye, and were developed using the lye and alum of the dye in the new sappanwood of the sappanwood. To red, red to purple in lye, in roasting alum is dark purple in iron. It is also used to represent the blood that was about to solidify in the past and present story. Because it was used in the staining on behalf of the purple and safflower in the Edo era, and it was also known as purple or similar fake red.

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