mizu-enogu 水絵具

Also suisai-enogu 水彩絵具. Water colors. Paints with a water binder *baizai 媒剤; the pigment is dissolved or mixed in water for use. Paintings made with mizu-enoguare called suisaiga 水彩画. Water colors were popularized in Japan in the Meiji period by the magagine Mizu-e みずゑ. They are transparent, allowing the color of the ground to show through, in contrast to opaque insoluble mineral pigments *iwa-enogu 岩絵具. *Suibokuga 水墨画 are also a form of water color painting, but only black carbon ink *sumi 墨, is used. Water colors were occasionally made from insoluble materials which form an emulsion in water. An example is the yellow tree resin gamboge *tōō 藤黄, which has been used in Japanese painting *nihonga 日本画 since the Nara period.