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  2. Traditional colors of Japan - Wikipedia

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    English translation RGB Hex triplet ... Japanese bush warbler-colored 100,85,48 #645530 ... Wisteria purple 135,95,154 #875F9A

  3. Murasaki - Wikipedia

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    Fujimurasaki, nisemurasaki, kokimurasaki, murasaki, umemurasaki and murasakitobi, names for a number of shades of purple considered to be part of the traditional colors of Japan Kokimurasaki , the outerwear color of 1st rank aristocrats in the forbidden colors system of the Japanese Imperial Court from the 10th–11th century until the Meiji ...

  4. Hanakotoba - Wikipedia

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    Hanakotoba (花言葉) is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words.

  5. Shiso - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] Red-leaf varieties are sometimes called "purple mint". [4] In the Ozarks, it is called "rattlesnake weed", because the sound the dried stalks make when disturbed along a footpath is similar to a rattlesnake's rattle. [9] The Japanese name shiso became part of the English lexicon in the 1990s, owing to the growing popularity of sushi. [10]

  6. Maneki-neko - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese beckoning gesture is made by holding up the hand, palm down, and repeatedly folding the fingers down and back, thus the cat's appearance. Some maneki-neko made specifically for some Western markets will have the cat's paw facing upwards, in a beckoning gesture that is more familiar to most Westerners.

  7. Japanese iris - Wikipedia

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    The term "Japanese iris" encompasses three species of Irises cultivated in gardens or growing wild in Japan: hanashōbu (Iris ensata), kakitsubata (Iris laevigata) and ayame (Iris sanguinea). Of these three species, I. ensata is the one most commonly referred to as "Japanese iris" outside Japan.

  8. 50 Of The Most Fascinating, Stunning And Dangerous Natural ...

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    On Earth, this would translate to the north and south poles switching places every decade. #13 Salar Of Uyuni, Bolivia Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, formed from the remnants of ...

  9. Lithospermum erythrorhizon - Wikipedia

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    Lithospermum erythrorhizon, commonly called purple gromwell, red stoneroot, red gromwell, red-root gromwell and redroot lithospermum, is a plant species in the family Boraginaceae. [1] It is called zǐcǎo ( 紫草 ) in Chinese, jichi ( 지치 ) in Korean, and murasaki ( ムラサキ ; 茈 ) in Japanese.