NIPPON HANDWEAVES IN KUSAKIZOME DYES by Akira Yamazaki

I received this book as a gift in 1974. It is my treasured possession. Only 200 copies were printed in 1959, mine is No.194.

Asiatic dayflower (tsuukusa)

Saffron (benibana); madder (akane); gardenia (kuchinashi)

Fermented indigo (ai) balls

Sawtooth oak (kunugi)

Red (sappan wood); olive, mountain peach (shibuki); 
black is betel nut palm (binro) and indigo (ai)

Brown dye is gardenia (kuchinashi); 
red is sappan wood (suoh)

Gray is cranes bill geranium (gennoshoko); 
red is sappan wood (suoh)

Maroon is sappan wood (suoh); 
black dyed with indigo (ai) and 
wild sumac (yama-urushi)

Ramie dyed with indigo (ai); tumeric (ukon), 
eulalia grass miscanthus tinctorus (kariyasu) for yellow; 
alder, mountain peach bark and plum 
(han, shibuki and ume) for brown

Plum (ume)

Auburn color, Rosa rugosa (hamanashi); 
black is alder (han) with mountain peach (yamamono)

Gall (fushi or gobaishi); yellow (kuchinashi); 
light purple machilus thunbergi (tamakusu)

Blue (ai); green (ai) and yellow,  
eulalia grass miscanthus tinctorus (kariyasu)

Fermented indigo balls (aidama)

Yellow, gardenia (kuchinashi); red, sappan wood (suoh); 
black, (shibuki, myrica rubia. mountain peach and 
yamamomo, shibuki)

Pomegranate

To be continued....