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| − | | It is common to use ash water as mordant for this dyeing. Without using the mordant, it would be difficult to make the resultant color purple. Though larger quantity of ash water was used for dyeing the right sample, the resultant color should not be what was called "Kuromurasaki ( | + | | It is common to use ash water as mordant for this dyeing. Without using the mordant, it would be difficult to make the resultant color purple. Though larger quantity of ash water was used for dyeing the right sample, the resultant color should not be what was called "Kuromurasaki ()" in the Nihon shoki (), the early 8th century AD. Japan. The plant was also read in a Japanese classic poem in the Manysh (), volume 4, fromthe 7th -8th century AD: |
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Revision as of 06:19, 24 July 2013
| Museum number | 235 |
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| Uemura number / title | ; "Haze-some 25" |
| Folder location | 4th shelf |
| Sample location | right (235 R) |
| Fiber type | silk |
| Color | dark purple |
| Dyestuff (Japanese common name) | 紫根 : Shikon (?) |
| Dye (English common name) | Gromwell root |
| Dyestuff (botanical name) | Lithospermum erythrorhizon Siebold et Zucc. (L. officinale L. subsp. erythrorhizon (Siebold et Zucc.) Hand.-Mazz.) |
| Plant part | root / dried (?) |
| Dyestuff extraction | boiled in water, and dyed in warm bath |
| Auxiliary agent in dye bath | - |
| Mordant | ash water (larger quantity) |
| Other auxiliary agent | - |
| Uemura's notes | It is common to use ash water as mordant for this dyeing. Without using the mordant, it would be difficult to make the resultant color purple. Though larger quantity of ash water was used for dyeing the right sample, the resultant color should not be what was called "Kuromurasaki ()" in the Nihon shoki (), the early 8th century AD. Japan. The plant was also read in a Japanese classic poem in the Manysh (), volume 4, fromthe 7th -8th century AD: |
| Uemura's date | Kyoto |