View source for Tsumi /Yamakuwa - left (302 L)


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! scope="row"|Museum number
| 302
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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
| left (302 L)
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! scope="row"|Fiber type
| silk
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! scope="row"|Color
| dark brown
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! scope="row"|Dyestuff (Japanese common name)
| 柘 /やまくわ : Tsumi /Yamakuwa
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! scope="row"|Dyestuff (botanical name)
| Cornus kousa Buerger ex Hance subsp. kousa (Benthamidia japonica (Siebold et Zucc.) H.Hara)
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! scope="row"|Plant part
| bark / dried (?)
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! scope="row"|Dyestuff extraction
| boiled in water
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! scope="row"|Auxiliary agent in dye bath
| -
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! scope="row"|Mordant
| iron
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! scope="row"|Other auxiliary agent
| -
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! scope="row"|Uemura's notes
| Mordanting with ash water would not fix the color compound(s) well to fiber. The resultant color would be yellow brown like Shiba-zome, using iron mordant bath and ash water bath. This plant is not a type of mulberry tree. The Bencao Gangmu, a Chinese medical book (accessible through: http://www.i-apple.jp/honzo/) from the late 16th century AD says:
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! scope="row"|Uemura's date
| Kyoto
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[[Category:Uemura dye archive]]