Question

This medium is usually used to make sumi-e paintings
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Answer 1

Inks for Japanese and Chinese brush painting (sumi-e in Japanese) and calligraphy are made from soot combined with animal glue. These core ingredients create subtle tones within blacks, ideal for creating poetic lines and washes

Answer 2

Rice paper is the traditional paper used in Sumi-e. The paint strokes out of which most paintings can be made are called the Four Gentlemen; these are the bamboo, the orchid, the chrysanthemum and the plum tree.