タネ-san
You are going to Heian-Shrine??? Wow….いいなぁ・・・。I love Kyoto！
あ、、、でも、京都の夏は暑いですよ！！Enjoy your trip!!

It usually helps me a lot remembering those. I was reading another PDF today and when I saw the word “okusan” I immediately remembered Naomi’s explanation about the kanji for tooth… with the rice stopped on the tooth.

Thank you again for the great lesson!

As Bob said, だろう is used to express conjecture, but it’s not limited to verbs. Some more examples:

学生だっただろう。
He was probably a student.
そのステーキは高いだろう。
That steak is probably expensive.

You can also use it with rising intonation as a tag question similar to ね, but a bit softer.

僕が好きだろう。
You like me, right?

Another use is to soften a question, which is common in very polite speech. It sort of adds a nuance of ‘I wonder’, rather than a direct question like ですか. You often hear Naomi use this construction.

お元気でしょうか。
How are you (I wonder)?

Oh, and the two expressions Bob mentioned are:

そうだろうね。
I guess so / that’s probably true.
どうだろうね。
I wonder.

It’s not stupid. I hope my answer is right. I’m kind of new at this but I think darou is the plain form of deshou and is used with a verb to express the idea that something will probably happen or not happen. As in “kuru darou” - will probably come or ” konai darou” - will probably not come etc. It can also be used to say things like “I guess so and so” or “I wonder so and so”.

Thank you! Both theories sound like good ones. Very interesting. It makes me wonder if it was a color that was particularly hard to produce like from a rare mineral or something and only wealthy or high ranking individuals could afford it. Something like that, ya know? Also thanks for telling me the name, I never knew what to call it.