Shikon (Gromwell root) - center (238 C)
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| Museum number | 238 |
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| Uemera number / title | 一; 櫨染 廿五 "Haze-some 25" |
| Folder location | 4th shelf |
| Sample location | center (238 C) |
| Fiber type | silk |
| Color | dull 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 boiling bath |
| Auxiliary agent in dye bath | - |
| Mordant | ash water |
| Other auxiliary agent | - |
| Uemera's notes | Normally, the dye bath with this plant should be kept warm, but boiled. If the bath is boiled, the resultant color would shift toward black, which would be similar to the one exposed to larger quantity of ash water mordant bath. Dark purple named "Kuromurasaki (黒紫)" was noted in the Nihonshoki (日本書紀), and "Keshimurasaki (滅紫)" was in the Engishiki (延喜式). The Kuromurasaki would not have been produced in this method. Dyeing paper in Keshimurasaki was recorded in historic manuscripts from the Tempyo (天平) period (729 -749 AD), Japan. |
| Uemera's date | Kyoto |