Japanese Color Atlas日本色譜あかねいろ · Madder red · family red
茜色 (Akane-iro) is catalogued here as madder red. Deep red from madder root, mentioned in the Man'yōshū.
Tobunken records the underlying color/material term in the Nara-period vocabulary database derived from 『大日本古文書』; this supports historical name attestation, not measured sRGB.
Name appears in at least one CC BY-SA Wikipedia traditional Japanese color list; HEX remains a Chroma Cathay digital approximation for design use.
Traditional color names predate modern screen color spaces, so this HEX value is a design approximation rather than a material measurement.
These entries preserve historical material, pigment, dye, or alternate-graph evidence without treating it as a direct HEX source for this color.
SOURCE BASIS Tobunken's 彩色DB records madder (茜/赤根) in the red-system historical vocabulary.
RELATIONSHIP Madder root is the dye behind 茜色, distinct from the safflower red of 紅.
CAVEAT Dye-material context only; the HEX is a modern approximation of a mordant-dependent dye.
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