丹たん青せい

noun

red and blue

Only with reading たんせい

Literal reference to the colors red and blue, often in classical or poetic contexts.

• 古ふるい文ぶん献けんには「丹たん青せい」を赤あかと青あおの顔がん料りょうとして記しるしている。

  Old documents record '丹青' as red and blue pigments.

noun

paints; colors

Only with reading たんせい

Extended from the literal colors to refer to paints or coloring materials in general, used in classical or artistic contexts.

• 画が家かは丹たん青せいを駆く使しして屏びょう風ぶに山さん水すいを描えがいた。

  The painter used paints skillfully to depict a landscape on the folding screen.

noun

painting; picture

Metonymic use for a painting or picture itself; a literary term. The reading たんぜい is a rare alternative.

• この丹たん青せいは鎌かま倉くら時じ代だいの作さくと伝つたえられている。

  This painting is said to be a work from the Kamakura period.