Colors / Pink in Japan / Usu-iro
Usu-iro
薄色 · うすいろ · “Thin color”
Simply 'the pale color' — in classical usage that meant this pale purple, dyed from gromwell root with camellia-ash lye or alum. A greyed lilac so established it needed no fuller name.
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white 1.93 × black 10.85 AAA
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ja.wikipedia #CEB4B9 · en.wikipedia #A87CA0
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The namesake
紫根 ムラサキ — what the name literally points to.
