唐紅

Japanese

FWOTD – 13 May 2020

Alternative spelling
韓紅

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唐紅

From 唐 (Kara, “(Tang dynasty) China”) +‎ 紅 (kurenai, “crimson”); contrasted with the alternative spelling 韓紅 (literally “Korean crimson”).

唐(から)紅(くれない) • (Kara-kurenai) ^{←からくれなゐ (karakurenawi)^?}

Chinese red; deep crimson
- 905, Kokin Wakashū, (book 5, poem 294; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 17)
  千(ち)早(はや)ぶる神(かみ)世(よ)もきかず竜(たつ)田(た)川(がは)からくれなゐに水(みづ)くくるとは
  chihayaburu kamiyo mo kikazu Tatsuta-gawa Kara-kurenai ni mizu kukuru to wa
  I have not heard that, e'en in the age of the Mighty Gods the rivers draped in vivid (literally Chinese) red as is that of Tatsuta.^[2]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:唐紅.
a Kara-kurenai-colored thread or cloth
Synonym of 寒紅梅 (kankōbai): an ume cultivar, Prunus mume var. mume f. alphandii
a 伽羅 (kyara)-class of incense

For quotations using this term, see Citations:唐紅.

From 唐 (Tō, “(Tang dynasty) China → foreign”) +‎ 紅 (beni, “crimson”).

唐(とう)紅(べに) • (tōbeni) ^{←たうべに (taubeni)^?}

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Joseph Henry Longford (1919) Japan of the Japanese, C. Scribner's sons, original from the University of Michigan, page 160