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Koiai

濃藍 · こいあい / こあい

One of the deepest colors indigo dyeing can produce: a blue so dark it borders on black. Koiai — "dense indigo" — stands at the far limit of the ai dyer's vat.

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藍染め 藍 — what the name literally points to.

deep indigo dyed fabric
deep indigo dyed fabric
deep indigo dyed fabric