View source for Tsuki kusa (Dayflower) - center (269 C)


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! scope="row"|Museum number
| 269
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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
| center (269 C)
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! scope="row"|Fiber type
| silk
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! scope="row"|Color
| light blue stains
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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 / fresh
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! scope="row"|Dyestuff extraction
| flower juice was rubbed onto the fabric
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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 plant was read in a Japanese classic poem in the Manysh () , volume 7, from the 7th -8th century AD:
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! scope="row"|Uemura's date
| Kyoto Murasakino
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[[Category:Uemura dye archive]]