[Explanation of a color]

The Yanagisusutake, it is a dark yellow-green tinged ash. Character referred to as “Yanagi” was devoted to indicate that the base color is a “Susutake-iro” is tinged greenish.

There is a “dyed out Yu …… tea-dyed Iloilo, soot bamboo, which is instead” of the previous fiscal year Edo “Touseisomemono Kagami” in the mechanism of (nine years, one thousand six hundred ninety-six Genroku), the river of “Susutake-iro” Around this time it seems to have appeared as dyed.

On that was under dyed in broth bayberry bark Momokawa, staining was developed with alum mordant and Ohaguro. By the way, It was not darken further this willow smoked bamboo is “Yanagisusutakecha”.

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