View source for Yomogi (Wormwood) - center (209 C)


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! scope="row"|Museum number
| 209
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! scope="row"|Uemura number / title
| ;   "Haze-some 25"
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! scope="row"|Folder location
| 3rd shelf
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! scope="row"|Sample location
| center (209 C)
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! scope="row"|Fiber type
| silk
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! scope="row"|Color
| greenish beige
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! scope="row"|Dyestuff (Japanese common name)
| よもぎ : Yomogi
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! scope="row"|Dye (English common name)
| Wormwood
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! scope="row"|Dyestuff (botanical name)
| Artemisia indica Willd. var. maximowiczii (Nakai) H.Hara (A. princeps Pamp.)
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! scope="row"|Plant part
| leaf & stem /unspecified
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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
| lime water
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! scope="row"|Other auxiliary agent
| -
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! scope="row"|Uemura's notes
| In a Chinese medical book, called Bencao Gangmu (accessible through: http://www.i-apple.jp/honzo/) from late 16th century AD, the plant was given a Chinese character "", and in other books: "" or "".
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! scope="row"|Uemura's date
| Kyoto
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[[Category:Uemura dye archive]]