[Explanation of a color]

The Yamamomo-iro is a bright, austere yellowish-brown color. yamamomo is a tall evergreen tree in the family Yamamomaceae, which produces edible, bright dark red, sweet-sour berries. However, yamamomo-iro is not the color of the berries, but the color of the cloth dyed from the bark.

The dried bark of the Yangbai tree is called “Momokawa,” and has been used as a typical brown dye since ancient times, even older than the color name “Cha-iro.

Yamamomo-iro” is the color of cloth dyed by mixing this dyeing agent with alumite, and when iron salt is used, the cloth is dyed “dark brown. Yangbaeki was widely used during the Edo period (1603-1867), when brown was in vogue.

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