Colors / Blue in Japan / Kachi-iro
Kachi-iro
褐色 · かちいろ · “Coarse wool color”
Kachi-iro is a blue so deep it verges on black, its warmth entirely extinguished. The kanji with which it is written denote coarse woolen cloth, lending the name a plain, austere character.
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white 17.16 AAA black 1.22 ×
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The namesake
褐 濃紺の布 — what the name literally points to.
