What is the traditional Japanese color "mulberry dye"?
Mulberry dye is a light brown with a brownish tinge, dyed with a decoction of mulberry bark and root bark and lye mordant. Some people believe that mulberry dye is dyed using mulberry fruit, but since mulberry fruit is purple-black, it is generally considered to refer to a deep reddish purple. A similar color, a white-brown color with a slight yellowish tinge that has the color of mulberry dye, is called mulberry white tea.
Mulberry dye = Kuwazome
In Saikaku Ihara's "Koshoku Ichidai Otoko," there is a passage that says, "Even though we were three, we wore mulberry-dyed cotton tabi socks," which shows that mulberry-dyed tabi socks were popular in the late Edo period. "Mulberry dye" is pronounced "kuwazome."
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