There is a traditional color called "Shimbashi-color". The dictionary says, "The name of dyeing color. Blueish light green color. Colors that became popular from Geisha in Shimbashi from the end of the Meiji era to the Taisho era ("Super Daijibayashi").
Shimbashi Geisha's Okiya is located on the site of Ginza Kinharu Yashiki and was called Kinharu Geisha, and is also known as "Konparuiro". At present, the street light display on Kinharu Street is colored in this Shimbashi color (above photo).
During the Edo period, there was the residence of the Kinharu family, one of the Noh actors Yotsuya that flourished since the Muromachi period. After the Meiji Restoration, Nihonbashi and Yanagibashi and Shimbashi were bustling as Mitsuhashi Hanamachi. At the time of the early days of modern Tokyo, new ones were preferred, and dyeing using chemical dyes was Shimbashi color. In Ginza, where Western civilizations such as Ginza brick streets and gas lamps were introduced, the feeling of high color may have been accepted freshly.
It is said that this color was also effectively used in beauty paintings by Japanese painter Kiyokata Kaburagi. The theme color of Shinko Yurikamome "Shimbashi Station" is "Shimbashi color" and the pattern is "Yanagi stripe" (lower photo = from Yurikamome HP). @ Akira Makibuchi
