ganryou　顔料

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

1　Pigment. Powdered colours used in oriental painting. Insoluble in water and most other liquid media. Usually mixed with animal glue *nikawa 膠 as a binder *baizai 媒剤 to make a paint. Ganryou are opaque, durable and relatively resistant to fading. The term ganryou is used in contrast to senryou 染料, which refers to translucent soluble dyes. Senryou and ganryou are collectively known as *shikiryou 色料. Ganryou are divided into organic pigments *yuuki ganryou 有機顔料 and inorganic pigments *muki ganryou 無機顔料, both of which can be synthetically produced or made from naturally occurring materials. Many pigments used in Japan are so-called *iwa-enogu 岩絵具 made from minerals koubutsu 鉱物, and doro-enogu 泥絵具 made from earth materials, doshitsu zairyou 土質材料. The most important ganryou include the white pigments *hakudo 白土 and *gofun 胡粉, red *shu 朱, orange *tan 丹, yellow ochre *oudo 黄土, green *rokushou 緑青, brown *taisha 代赭, and blue *gunjou 群青. Pigments are not usually mixed, but variations in tone can be achieved by grinding down the powder; finer grains give a lighter shade. Sometimes a fixative is used to bind an insoluble substance such as powdered metal to a soluble dye, producing a lake pigment, reiki ganryou レーキ顔料 such as red madder lake, mada reiki マダ レーキ. 2　As *enogu 絵具. Ganryou is sometimes used to refer to any type of colouring matter.

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