群青 - Blue Crowd -

Japanese is known as one of the most difficult languages in the world.
However, because of this, it has a wide range of expressions, and there are many "beautiful Japanese" from ancient to modern words.
Here, we would like to introduce some of the "Beautiful Japanese" selected by the KUDEN team as "Beautiful Letters."

The shape of the letters is of course beautiful, but if you know the meaning, you can feel the depth of the beauty even more.
We hope you enjoy it.

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Today's Beautiful Japanese

群青

Blue Crowd ( Ultramarine )

Read : Gun jou

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[ Meaning ]

One of the deep, brilliant blue paints (the ingredients and colors differ between Western and Japanese painting).
Also, its blue color.

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群青 combines depth and vividness.
群青 refers to a deep and vivid shade of blue.
This color, which makes us think of the sky and the sea, is one of the colors deeply rooted in the Japanese sense of beauty.
In the history of Japanese painting, the blue pigment that has been used since ancient times is 群青, made from the mineral azurite.

群青 is also an important color in the world of Japanese painting. It is an indispensable color for depicting the sky and the surface of water, and was used to depict the deep and clear world that lurked there.

Ultramarine, on the other hand, is a pigment extracted from the mineral lapis lazuli, and its hue is more vivid than that of the Japanese painting gunei.


群青 is a color that symbolizes the traditional Japanese sense of beauty. It is both deep and clear, giving the impression of refined beauty.

The color 群青 has been inherited by the modern Japanese sense of beauty.
Many J-POP songs are also inspired by the color of 群青.
Here are some of them.