What is the traditional Japanese color "meat color"?
The pale yellowish red seen on the skin of Japanese people is the color of flesh. The name of this color is sometimes called "shishi," an archaic word for the meat of boars and deer that are eaten. From there, it came to mean the color of skin. It has been used since the Tenpyo period, and is written in the Wamyō Ruijūshō (a dictionary from the mid-Heian period) as "meat, Japanese names, skin skin meat," and has long been treated as synonymous with skin color.
Flesh color = kuiiro
Nikuiro is used to color the skin of Buddhist statues and in doll making, and is popular as a color that symbolizes vitality and healthy beauty.
DIC Japanese traditional colors: R240 G169 B134 #F0A986/Flesh color
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