飛鳥、奈良時代における茜染、紫染の色相と染色法について

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Over 1200 years, the method of madder and gromwell dyeings in Asuka-Nara eras, 6-8 centuries, of Japan, has been unknown in the sense of the restoration of the original colors and their fastnesses to light. This paper attempts to trace back to the original dyring method by referring to historical literature. First, the color names of the 568 relics listed in Kokkajinpocho were sorted. It was found that the colors of hi-iro (scarlet) dyed with madder and murasaki-iro (various violets) dyed with gromwell were by far copious against other colors in the list. It was deduced that these colors of the articles intimately related to Emperor Shomu were dyed by some method hidden to the general public. Second, during recent 250 years, it has been believed that these vegetables dyed were mordanted with lye of camellia. We found in Shoku Nihongi, an authentic chronicle of those eras, that byakubanjaku (raw alum) was mined in certain areas of Japan. This was also proved in Daidoruijuho. Third, it was also found that the usage of alum to mordant these dyes was listed in the term, shuguoupuku (empress' garments) in Engishiki. Thus, literal evidences were established for the usage of alum as the mordant for the dyeings at that time.
2003-04-05