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Also written —k”~Ž÷. A brown vegetable dye senryou õ—¿ obtained from the evergreen tree Myrica rubra, which grows in the mountains of southern Honshuu –{B. The tree bark, called momokawa “”ç or shibuki a–Ø, is boiled in water for approximately 24 hours to produce the dye. Used with an alum or ash lye mordant yamamomo produced a golden-brown shade called kincha ‹à’ƒ, and an iron mordant gives an olive-to gray-brown colour yamamomo-iro ŽR“F. It can also be top-dyed on indigo *ai —• to give black. Yamamomo has been used in Japan since the Nara period and was popular as an overdye during the Edo period.
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