Japanese Color Atlas日本色譜むらさき · Purple · family purple
紫 (Murasaki) is catalogued here as purple. Gromwell-root purple; historically high-status dye.
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 紫土 (purple earth) used in a 752 CE Shōsōin document.
RELATIONSHIP 紫土 is a rare manganiferous earth pigment for purple, a material relative of the dye-based 紫.
CAVEAT Earth-pigment context only; it does not supply a measured value for the dye-based purple 紫.
OPEN MATERIAL RECORD →