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Indigo belongs to a family of 140 leafy green plants with 4 of them often being used for dyeing. The dyeing process usually requires a complicated oxidation process which turns the green leaves int...
Samurai Secrets: Three True Stories of Aizome (Indigo Dyeing)
On March 2, 1657, bystanders on the hills west of Edo (present-day Tokyo) were looking down on a city ablaze in a massive ring of fire. It was another display of "the flowers of Edo", as the fires ...