What is the traditional Japanese color "Shinbashi-iro"?
Shinbashi-iro is a vibrant, greenish-blue color. Today, it's the same color as turquoise blue. This bright blue-green, created in the mid-Meiji era using imported chemical dyes, was very fresh for its time and became popular as a stylish color that gave an urban impression. Geishas in Shinbashi, Tokyo, favored this color and incorporated it into their clothing, hence it came to be called "Shinbashi-iro." This color remained fashionable until the Taisho era and was also used in the beautiful women paintings of Japanese painters such as Kagami Kiyokata and Uemura Shoen.
Shinbashi color
It was also called "Konparu-iro" (Konparu color), named after Konparu Shindo, where geisha houses in Shinbashi were located. "Shinbashi-iro" is pronounced "shinbashi-iro."
DIC Traditional Japanese Colors: R0 G137 B167 #0089A7 / Shinbashi-iro (Shinbashi color)
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