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.
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| Asiatic dayflower (tsuukusa) |
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Saffron (benibana); madder (akane); gardenia (kuchinashi)
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| Fermented indigo (ai) balls |
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| Sawtooth oak (kunugi) |
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Red (sappan wood); olive, mountain peach (shibuki);
black is betel nut palm (binro) and indigo (ai) |
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Brown dye is gardenia (kuchinashi);
red is sappan wood (suoh) |
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Gray is cranes bill geranium (gennoshoko);
red is sappan wood (suoh) |
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Maroon is sappan wood (suoh);
black dyed with indigo (ai) and
wild sumac (yama-urushi) |
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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 | |
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| Plum (ume) |
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Auburn color, Rosa rugosa (hamanashi);
black is alder (han) with mountain peach (yamamono) |
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Gall (fushi or gobaishi); yellow (kuchinashi);
light purple machilus thunbergi (tamakusu) |
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Blue (ai); green (ai) and yellow,
eulalia grass miscanthus tinctorus (kariyasu) |
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| Fermented indigo balls (aidama) |
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Yellow, gardenia (kuchinashi); red, sappan wood (suoh);
black, (shibuki, myrica rubia. mountain peach and
yamamomo, shibuki) |
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| Pomegranate |
To be continued....
