What is the traditional Japanese color "Nuki-iro" (natural color)?
The soft, reddish color of "unbleached" evokes the natural texture of threads and fabrics. Its gently warm, pale hue gives the impression of being enveloped in natural gentleness. In fact, this color name is not that old; in Tama Aoki's essay "The Drawers of Fumiko Koda's Chest of Drawers," Koda Rohan's nightgown is described as "what we now call unbleached," suggesting that it was not yet a common term at the time.
Natural color = off-white
The background to this color lies in the pollution problems of the high-growth economic period, and its popularity spread as it was re-evaluated as a natural, undyed color. "Kinari-iro" is pronounced "kinari-iro."
DIC Traditional Japanese Colors: C0 M7 Y14 K5 / R242 G255 B207 / Natural White (Kinari-iro)
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