murasaki

Recently, while passing through a little street tenanted chiefly by dealers in old wares, I noticed a furisode, or long-sleeved robe, of the rich purple tint called murasaki, hanging before one of the shops.

In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The mounds have moss-laden rocks on them and were planted with a dwarf Japanese maple (murasaki kiyohime), hinoki falsecypress and satsuki azaleas.

Green Scene: A Japanese garden's natural serenity 2010

Ohsawa mentioned that words like "tamari" and "murasaki" were also used in Japan to refer to traditional soy sauces.

VEGAN "LIVERWURST"-- TRUST ME, IT'S DELICIOUS!-- AND INFO ON LIQUID SMOKE Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009

At Bobby and Margaret's dinner party, I encountered yet another foreign Japanese ingredient - murasaki imo, literally translated to its English name, the purple potato, aka Hawaiian or Okinawa potato.

Archive 2005-11-01 2005

At Bobby and Margaret's dinner party, I encountered yet another foreign Japanese ingredient - murasaki imo, literally translated to its English name, the purple potato, aka Hawaiian or Okinawa potato.

I guess this is Japanese? 2005

This is fruit of a bush called "murasaki (= violet) - shikibu (= a chamberlain)" (Callicarpa japonica).

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) 2009

Retainers may not, except in rare cases by special favour of their lords, indiscriminately wear silk stuffs, such as shiro-aya (undyed silk with woven patterns), shiro-kosode (white wadded silk coats), murasaki-awase (purple silk coats, lined), murasaki-ura (silk coats lined with purple); nori (white gloss silk), mumon (silk coat without the wearer's badge dyed on it), kosode (a coloured silk-wadded coat).

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886