pigmentEnji-iro
烟子 / 烟紫
えんじ
They are historically related enji-family material or pigment terms, but they are not the same record as the modern color name 臙脂色.
MATERIALS · NOT HEX VALUES
Pigments, dyes, and historical graphs.
These records preserve source-backed material vocabulary without turning every pigment, dye, or alternate graph into a color-name entry. They explain context around colors while keeping HEX approximations separate.
historical graphEbizome
依毘染
えびぞめ
It shares the reading えびぞめ with the atlas record 葡萄染, but uses a different graph and documentary basis.
pigmentTan-iro
丹 / 鉛丹
に / えんたん
丹 is the historical lead-oxide pigment behind the color name 丹色; the name long outlived the specific material.
pigmentShu-iro
朱沙 / 朱砂
しゅさ
Cinnabar/vermilion is the mineral basis of 朱色; period texts call both natural and synthetic forms shu/shusa.
pigmentGunjō-iro
金青
こんじょう
金青 is the Nara-period term for the azurite blue behind 群青色; the later term 紺青 shifted toward Prussian blue.
materialGofun-iro
胡粉
ごふん
胡粉 is the calcium-carbonate shell white that gives 胡粉色 its name and is still made for nihonga today.
pigmentSumi-iro
煙子 / 烟子
えんし
Soot black is a pigment relative of 墨色; period records count it as enshi, distinct from the sumi ink stick.
dyeSuō
蘇芳
すおう
Sappanwood is the dye material behind 蘇芳色; mordant and concentration move it across red-to-purple.
dyeKihada-iro
黄檗
きはだ
黄檗 is the berberine yellow dye behind 黄檗色, historically used on paper and textiles.
dyeAkane-iro
茜 / 赤根
あかね
Madder root is the dye behind 茜色, distinct from the safflower red of 紅.
pigmentRokushō
緑青
ろくしょう
緑青 is the malachite mineral pigment that names this record; particle size grades it from deep to pale.
pigmentByakuroku
白緑
びゃくろく
白緑 is the finely-ground, lighter grade of malachite (緑青), used for paler greens in painting.
dyeAi-iro
藍 / 青黛
あい / せいたい
藍 is the indigo plant and 青黛 its prepared blue; together they are the dye basis of 藍色.
pigmentMurasaki
紫土
しど
紫土 is a rare manganiferous earth pigment for purple, a material relative of the dye-based 紫.