繧繝
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Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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繧 | 繝 |
うん Hyōgai |
げん Hyōgai |
Alternative spelling |
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暈繝 |
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- a dyed pattern consisting of alternating light and dark bands of a single hue
- 繧繝彩色
- ungen saishiki
- ungen coloration
- 2011, Honda Eiji, Interia no rekishi [History of interior design], page 369:
- 天皇は最も貴重な織物であった繧繝錦を使った繧繝縁が用いられました。繧繝とは同色系統の段層的な濃淡と他の対照的な色調の濃淡を組み合わせて装飾効果を高めた当時の最高級織物です。
- Tennō wa mottomo kichō na orimono deatta ungen nishiki o tsukatta ungenberi ga mochīraremashita. Ungen to wa dōshoku keitō no dansōteki na nōtan to hoka no taishōteki na shikichō no nōtan o kumiawasete sōshoku kōka o takameta tōji no saikōkyū orimono desu.
- The Emperor used a brocade of the most precious ungen woven brocade. Ungen is a woven fabric consisting of alternating bands of lighter and darker shades of the same color with other contrasting tones, the highest order of visual ornamentation available at that time.
- 天皇は最も貴重な織物であった繧繝錦を使った繧繝縁が用いられました。繧繝とは同色系統の段層的な濃淡と他の対照的な色調の濃淡を組み合わせて装飾効果を高めた当時の最高級織物です。
- 繧繝彩色
Usage notes
[edit]Banded ungen textiles originated in Tang-era China, and entered Japan during the Nara period.
References
[edit]- “繧繝彩色”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014