A light brown with a yellow tone. This is not a traditional Japanese color but one introduced from the West. Flax is often used in the West to describe hair color. French composer Claude Debussy's famous prelude "La fille aux cheveux de lin" (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) is well known. There is a misconception that flaxen hair is blond — it actually describes a light chestnut hair color, slightly different from blonde.