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  2. Traditional colors of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Name Romanized English translation RGB Hex triplet Name Romanized English translation RGB Hex triplet; 鴇羽色: Tokiha-iro: Ibis wing color 245,143,132 #F58F84 桜鼠: Sakuranezumi: Cherry blossom mouse grey 172,129,118 #AC8181 長春色: Chōshun-iro: Long spring (season) color 185,87,84 #B95754 唐紅/韓紅: Karakurenai: Foreign crimson [a ...

  3. Murasaki - Wikipedia

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    Fujimurasaki, nisemurasaki, kokimurasaki, murasaki, umemurasaki and murasakitobi, names for a number of shades of purple considered to be part of the traditional colors of Japan Kokimurasaki , the outerwear color of 1st rank aristocrats in the forbidden colors system of the Japanese Imperial Court from the 10th–11th century until the Meiji ...

  4. List of colors (alphabetical) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 December 2024. For other color lists, see Lists of colors. This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "List of colors" alphabetical ...

  5. Carmine (color) - Wikipedia

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    The color Japanese carmine is shown at right. The name of this shade of carmine in Japanese is enji-iro (臙脂色), literally "rouge color", as enji means rouge, the cosmetics. This term was later used to form the name of the New World insect, cochineal, used to make red dyes: enji-mushi (臙脂虫).

  6. Shades of violet - Wikipedia

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    The color Japanese violet or Sumire is shown at right. This is the color called "violet" in the traditional Japanese colors group, a group of colors in use since beginning in 660 CE in the form of various dyes that are used in designing kimono. [26] [27] The name of this color in Japanese is sumire-iro, meaning "violet color".

  7. Color term - Wikipedia

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    A color term (or color name) is a word or phrase that refers to a specific color. The color term may refer to human perception of that color (which is affected by visual context) which is usually defined according to the Munsell color system , or to an underlying physical property (such as a specific wavelength of visible light ).

  8. Hanakotoba - Wikipedia

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    Hanakotoba (花言葉) is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words.

  9. Forbidden colors (Japan) - Wikipedia

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    To this day, the ceremonial clothes of the Emperor worn during the enthronement ceremony are dyed in this color, extracted from sumac (Toxicodendron succedaneum), a Japanese wax tree. Seven additional colors were installed in the 10th and 11th centuries: Pale oak (青白橡, aoshirotsurubami) is the color of the outerrobes of the Emperor of ...