This is a bamboo grove in Koudai temple. This kind of color is called "Green" in modern Japan but we call it "Blue" sometimes.
I am not sure when we start to call this color "Green", but through Japanese history Green was not taken important color in their life.
Green color are too much around people life to be interested in the color.
Blue means immature and new for Japanese people, so that we call young bamboo Aotake (青竹) (青 means blue and 竹 means bamboo) and young rice field Aota (青田) (田 means rice field) , even though their color are "Green".
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