Rikan tea

This is the color that Kichisaburo Arashi II favored for his stage costumes. Rikan is the haiku name of Arashi Kichisaburo. The two most popular colors in the Edo period were brown and rat, which were loved by the general public to the extent that they were called "forty-eight tea and a hundred rats. The number has nothing to do with the actual number, but means that so many colors were favored. The following is written in Seijo-mihonroku, an essay on manners and customs published in Bunsei 13: "The current theatrical performance is an imitation of the world. Theatricals today do not imitate the world, but the world has come to imitate the theatricals." . It seems that the common people enjoyed the colors favored by the actors.