View source for Tsuki kusa (Dayflower) - bottom (271 B)


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! scope="row"|Museum number
| 271
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! scope="row"|Uemura number / title
| ;   "Haze-some 25"
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! scope="row"|Folder location
| 4th shelf
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! scope="row"|Sample location
| bottom (271 B)
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! scope="row"|Fiber type
| silk
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! scope="row"|Color
| white
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! scope="row"|Dyestuff (Japanese common name)
| つき草 : Tsuki kusa
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! scope="row"|Dyestuff (English common name)
| Dayflower
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! scope="row"|Dyestuff (botanical name)
| Commelina communis L.
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! scope="row"|Plant part
| flower juice / fresh
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! scope="row"|Dyestuff extraction
| dyed with flower juice
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! scope="row"|Auxiliary agent in dye bath
| -
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! scope="row"|Mordant
| -
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! scope="row"|Other auxiliary agent
| -
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! scope="row"|Uemura's notes
| The bottom sample was subsequently soaked into water: the color was fugitive. The plant was read in a Japanese classic poem:
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! scope="row"|Uemura's date
| Kyoto
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[[Category:Uemura dye archive]]