Japanese Color Atlas日本色譜すみいろ · Ink black · family black
墨色 (Sumi-iro) is catalogued here as ink black. Ink-stick black; foundational to calligraphy and sumi-e.
Tobunken records the underlying color/material term in the Nara-period vocabulary database derived from 『大日本古文書』; this supports historical name attestation, not measured sRGB.
Traditional color names predate modern screen color spaces, so this HEX value is a design approximation rather than a material measurement.
These entries preserve historical material, pigment, dye, or alternate-graph evidence without treating it as a direct HEX source for this color.
SOURCE BASIS Tobunken's 彩色DB records 煙子/烟子 (lamp black / soot) counted by sheet in Nara-period documents.
RELATIONSHIP Soot black is a pigment relative of 墨色; period records count it as enshi, distinct from the sumi ink stick.
CAVEAT Lamp-black pigment context only. It is documentary attestation, not a measured value for 墨色.
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