{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "indigo",
 "type": "ink",
 "names": {
  "name": "Indigo",
  "th": "คราม",
  "said": "The plant blue: Ainu mouths, Chin faces"
 },
 "region": [
  "east-asia",
  "mainland-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "colour": "blue-black"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Pigment from the indigo plant, used by the Ainu and reported for the blue lines on Chin women's faces.",
  "story": "Ainu and Ryukyuan tattooing both use indigo rather than soot, in islands where indigo dyeing is also the textile tradition. The same plant, the same vats, a different surface."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "สีจากต้นคราม ชาวไอนุใช้ และมีรายงานว่าเส้นสีน้ำเงินบนใบหน้าหญิงชาวชินก็ใช้"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "ainu-anchi-piri",
   "as": "Where it goes.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-irezumi",
  "s:wp-ainu-people",
  "s:wp-indigo-dye",
  "s:wp-tattooing-in-myanmar"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-irezumi"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}