Rainbow colour celebration - Day # 7 - VIOLET 紫
hyde
朝顔、浴衣の女性、エロス、プラモデル
MORNING GLORY, GIRLS IN YUKATA, EROS, PLASTIC MODEL
(Japanese) morning glory. When in primary school, we pot them, don’t we? This memory. Together with that, yukata, night shops, summer night. Girls in yukata!? Ah…it’s good, I like them. I feel a refreshing sensation, and there’s also a sense of cleanliness.
On the other hand, also eros. Not indecent, but more bewitching eros. Or, how should I put it, I want to violate girls with it on (laugh). Come to think of it, when a child, I wore yukata.
Then Evangelion 01 test-type. But I was thinking, until recently, it was blue. Therefore, when I made a plastic model, I didn’t paint it in violet. Because it wasn’t included in the range I can distinguish within myself.
ken
公家、自然と遠い色、風呂敷、ズボン
IMPERIAL COURT, COLOUR DIFFERENT FROM NATURE, FUROSHIKI, TROUSERS
The violet… is it a rainbow colour? (he checks seven colours of rainbow) But if we try like this, I felt I don’t divide yellow from pea green. Well, violet. It’s the colour of people from Imperial court. The colour of Imperial household. It’s recognized that it has been this colour from old times.
Then, I have the impression it’s a colour different from nature, even if there are quite a lot of violet flowers. But I think that it has become a colour quite different from nature, if we compare it to the past. When a child, it was recalling me furoshiki. My grandmother had always a violet furoshiki with her. Then when in lower middle school, I have a sensation that I bought purplish red trousers, but how was it? It’s difficult, this interview (laugh).
tetsu
高貴、自転車、居酒屋、ヤンキー
HIGH CLASS, BICYCLE, PUB, DELINQUENCY
Violet is the colour that only very high class people could put on in Heian period. When in lower middle school, I bought a violet bicycle. A violet thing I have recently bought? A thing associated with Eva 01 test-type. (laugh). Murasaki [violet in Japanese] … there’s a pub called Murasaki. But I rarely went there. As a pub, it’s noisy, isn’t it? I prefer drinking in a more silent place. So I can relax.
Talking about Laruku, including also indies era, we didn’t make after-live party too much. Therefore, I don’t have familiarity with pubs. Generally, I have the impression that, being a strong colour, it’s the colour of delinquency.
About Japanese morning glory http://homepage3.nifty.com/plantsandjapan/page031.html
About Murasaki pub (written with different kanji from violet) http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%91%E3%81%95%E6%9D%A5
About furoshiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furoshiki and http://www.env.go.jp/en/focus/attach/060403-5.html
The last tetsu’s word is yankee. It means Yankee or (slang) delinquency. I chose the second one, but I’m not completely sure about it.
So this is the end of rainbow.
There are two colours hyde-san can’t see clearly, pea green and violet. Quite sad L
But I’m with ken-san when he checked rainbow colours… they are usually different from the ones the interviewer have chosen!
This interview colours: red, orange, yellow, pea green, emerald green, blue, violet.
More usual rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
At first it was somehow a cultural shock. But then I was reassured by ken-san’s words and a little research on the net.
So the the Japanese rainbow is the same as the world’s ^___^Y