Heian shrine

This is Heian shrine in Kyoto.

This shrine is famous for Heian era in 794.

In this era this kind of vivid and bright color was loved by people.

Nobleman could only wear this kind of colorful "Kimono", because some of this kind of vivid color was prohibited for general people.

Banned color are like these colors. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

People still had a longing for those banned color and they made similar colors but those colors were pale, because only pale colors allowed general people using them.

Those pale colors are like these color. ■ ■

There are many pastel colored clothes in Japan now.

We can say that those colors have started to been created since this era as the above fact.