rokushō 緑青

Also *iwa-rokushō 岩緑青. A green pigment *ganryō 顔料, made of powdered malachite, a form of basic copper carbonate. The most important green color in East Asian painting, used in Japan as early as the Asuka period. A light green pigment *byakuroku 白緑, and various intermediate shades were made by grinding down rokushō to reduce the size of the particles. A blue-green pigment whose color is halfway between dark blue *gunjō 群青, and rokushō is known as gunroku 群緑. Paints made from mineral pigments like rokushō are known as *iwa-enogu 岩絵具.