Engi-shiki is a set of documents detailing rules and regulations related to the imperial rituals of ancient Japan,which began compilation in 905.It includes a chapter on official dress codes that lists color names as well as the amount of dyestuffs to make those colors,therefore serves as an important reference for dye research.The presentation will be based on my collaborative research with Yoichi Nakajima,a researcher on ancient textiles.As an attempt to reproduce the ancient colors,Nakajima hand-wove the fabric using the silk of a variety similar to the ancient variety and I dyed those fabric using the ingredients listed in the Engi-shiki.The followings are the color names (in Japanese)which we attempted to reproduce and their ingredients.
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