Do you know what Murasaki(purple) means when you hear it in a sushi restaurant? It’s actually soy sauce!!
Soy sauce used to be very expensive. Also, purple has long been considered a noble color,
so there is a theory that soy sauce came to be called “Murasaki(purple)” as a word to describe something precious.
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