What is Japan's traditional color "yellow leaves"...
It is one of the colors derived from the color of rotten leaves, and among the rotten leaves, yellow-brown with a dull yellow tinge is yellow-brown. The color is made by mixing safflower with madder or safflower, but it is said that in Kariyasu, less safflower or madder was added to intensify the yellowness, giving it an astringent taste. The layered colors were ``yellow tan on the front, yellow on the inside'' and were coordinated as colors for clothing from late autumn to early winter.
Yellowing leaves = Kikuchiba
The words ``yellow leaves'' can also be found in the Japanese Heian period literature ``Utsuho Monogatari'' and ``Makura no Soshi.'' ``Yellow leaves'' is pronounced ``kikuchiba.''
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