[Explanation of a color]

The Tsuyukusa-iro, it is a bright light blue named after the flower of spiderwort blooming in the early morning of summer. In an annual plant of Commelinaceae, spiderwort has been clumps on the banks of the creek and roadside all over Japan. From what has been sliding dyed the cloth in the juice of flowers and leaves, called “grass arrived” the Hijaz, Written Tsukikusa, also duck head grass. It is used in the design work of the crest and dyed Yuzen today from a characteristic that can be bleached easily also, the sliding dyeing Mayo previous era. The color of invasive of Heian period, “table-Hanada, back, thin Hanada” in, it has been worn in the fall. By the way, from the very easy to fall color, spiderwort is also used as Makurakotoba take “Utsurou” to and “disappear”.

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