旧くからの友人が珍しいアクセサリーをくれました。化学染料は使わずに、柿渋で染めてあるそうな。地味と言えば地味な色合いですが、日本人好みだな、と思うのです。

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An old, good friend of mine gave me a special kind of brooch dyed with only persimmon tannin without using any chemical dyes.　As you see in the photo, the brooch on a “shikishi” thick paper with a letter meaning delightfulness, its subtle shades of color are quite subdued, however, I am sure they exactly meet the taste of Japanese people.