[Explanation of a color]

The Umenezumi, it is a pale gray with a reddish tinge. In the epithet of redness derived from the flower of the Red Plum, the term plum became popular as color name Arrive “nezumi” is increased from the late Edo period, called “shijuhattyahaykunezu”. Plum mouse is one of them. Among the color of the stain is limited brown lines, gray lines, and dark-blue system by sumptuary law, to produce subtle color differences, people of that time seems to have fun in a kimono it.

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