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Kuretake Co., Ltd. (株式会社くれたけ, Kabushiki Gaisha Kure Take) is a Japanese manufacturing company of writing implements.The firm began its activities manufacturing sumi ink and brushes and then expanded its range of products, producing mainly pens.
Pine soot ink is made from the soot of pine wood. It has less glue and so spreads more than oil soot ink. It gives a blueish-black color and is good for calligraphy and gongbi painting. Lacquer soot ink is made from the soot of dried raw lacquer. It has a shiny appearance and is most suitable for painting. Charcoal ink is made using ordinary ...
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An inkstick (墨, sumi).The hardened mixture of vegetable or pine soot and glue in the shape of a stick. [5] The best inksticks are between 50 and 100 years old. Mulberry paper (和紙, washi) An inkstone (硯, suzuri) to grind the inkstick against, mixed with water. Other tools include: A paper weight (文鎮, bunchin) to hold the paper in place
Sumi: Similar in style to certain watercolor brushes, also with a generally thick wooden or metal handle and a broad soft hair brush that when wetted should form a fine tip. Also spelled Sumi-e ( 墨絵 , Ink wash painting ).
Sumizuri-e is a type of monochromatic woodblock printing that uses only black ink. It is one of the earliest forms of Japanese woodblock printing , dating back to the Nara period (710 – 794). Sumi-e translates to “ink wash painting,” which is a type of East Asian brush painting technique that uses black ink.
Yoshio Ikezaki (池崎 義男, born January 12, 1953) [1] is a Japanese artist, lecturer, professor, and a master of both washi paper making and sumi-e ink-wash painting. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] He lives in the United States.
Toko Shinoda (篠田 桃紅, Shinoda Tōkō, 28 March 1913 – 1 March 2021) was a Japanese artist. Shinoda is best known for her abstract sumi ink paintings and prints. . Shinoda's oeuvre was predominantly executed using the traditional means and media of East Asian calligraphy, but her resulting abstract ink paintings and prints express a nuanced visual affinity with the bold black ...