[Explanation of a color]

The Utsubushi-iro, it is a greenish brown gray slightly dyed in Gobaisi. Gobaisi thing aneurysms of insects that can be trees Nurude. It became this color name from the fact that it is called Utsufushi from that middle is hollow, dyed in the flour it.
Tannins contains many Gobaishi, dyeing color will be a color close to Usuzumi-iro. It is a Kyo-shoku as well as Usuzumi, it was used as the color of mourning since ancient times. It is the one that was dyed in Gobaishi “A lot of clothing of Usuzumi” that appeared in such classic novel.

From the fact that soluble tannin which is the main component of gall powder to improve the fixing of Ohaguro, it has been used as a material of Ohaguro is a habit of Meiji earlier.

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