[Explanation of a color]

The Yanagisome, it is a yellow-green that contains a gray faintly like the color of the leaves of the willow. Alias ​​as “Yanagiha-iro”. Who willow in deciduous of Salicaceae Salix, was weeping willow as a general Namiki was brought over to the Nara period such as with plum willow. It is love also Heian aristocracy, the “Utsuhomonogatari” and “Yanagigasane”, “sweat cedar weathervane of willow”, his name appeared as “Yanagi no Karakoromo” and “Eigamonogatari” and “Genjimonogatari” you, but by the Oiro or raid, these will be from the Edo period as willow staining.
By the way, color names stick of willow, there Kusayanagi, Urayanagi, willow tea, and willow to other rats.

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