What is the traditional Japanese color "soot bamboo color"?
Smoked bamboo color is a traditional color that refers to a dark brown color like sooted bamboo. Smoked bamboo refers to bamboo arranged near the ceiling of a hearth or hearth that has been smoked for many years and has taken on a unique patina. In Kato Hikioan's essay "Wagamo" (around the Bunka period), he writes, "From around the fifth year of the Horeki era, men and women in the towns of Edo wore kosode (short-sleeved kimono) in the color of sooted bamboo," which suggests that it was widely popular in clothing such as kosode, haori, and katana (Japanese kimono) during the Horeki era (1751-1764).
Soot bamboo color
Bamboo is known as a very fast-growing plant, growing at its fastest by several tens of centimeters per day and several meters per year. "Susutakeiro" is pronounced "smooth bamboo color."
DIC Traditional Japanese Colors: R110 G85 B47 #6E552F / Susutakeiro (Smoky Bamboo Color)
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