水縹 Mihanada.【追儺 Tsuina Ceremony 】16

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Mihanada is an old Japanese color name.
It refers to a color like light blue.

However, in old Japan, it was called “mizuhanada.
It is read as “mihanada” or “mizuhanada.

The “haizuri-iro” in the video is brown in modern times.

The Engishiki is a code of formal ceremonies
(detailed regulations for the enforcement of the Ritsuryo) compiled in the mid-Heian period (927).)
states that a tree called Hashibami was used to dye cloth.
Some of the treasures in the Shosoin are said to have been dyed in this color.

In Western Europe, it is thought to resemble the color used
as the “hazel eyes” in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

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