Suibokugayou-Aozumi inkstick ( Bluish black, For painting, 水墨画用青墨 )

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Suibokugayou-Aozumi ( 水墨画用青墨 ) - Kobaien inksticks, Nara, Japan

Suibokugayou-Aozumi inkstick ( Bluish black, For painting, 水墨画用青墨 )

Size: 1.0 (W:20mm L:80mm T:8mm Wgt:15gram)

Price
$33

Product information

Suibokugayou-Aozumi — literally "seiboku for suminga," an ink for painting — takes its name from exactly what it is: 水墨 (suiboku, ink painting) 画用 (gayou, for painting) 青墨 (aozumi, blue-black ink).

Genuine indigo is worked into fine oil-smoke soot and glue, developed over years of Kobaien's research, to hold onto its blue even at full strength — where most blacks turn simply dark, this one stays visibly, unmistakably blue. It is built for the moment in a painting when black alone would flatten the scene: a mountain fading into mist, water holding a trace of sky, shadow that needs to breathe rather than sit inert on the page.

The meaning of the product name is as follows: 

水 ( sui : water )

墨 ( boku : ink )

画 ( ga : painting )

用 ( you : for )

青 ( ao: blue )

墨 ( zumi : ink)

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