Inksticks (Chinese: 墨; pinyin: mò) or ink cakes are a type of solid Chinese ink used traditionally in several Chinese and East Asian art forms such as...

originated in Luoyang, Henan. Traditional Chinese ink is solidified into inksticks. Usually, some water is applied onto the inkstone (by means of a dropper...

Chinese calligraphy, India ink is commonly used in a solid form called an inkstick. Basic India ink is composed of a variety of fine soot, known as lampblack...

usually grind inkstick over an inkstone to obtain black ink, but prepared liquid inks (bokuju (墨汁) in Japanese) are also available. Most inksticks are made...

suggests that it got its name from its resemblance to the blocks of sumi (inkstick) imported from China (Kara) for use in Japanese calligraphy. Karasumi is...

brushes. Direct evidence for the earliest Chinese inks, similar to modern inksticks, is found around 256 BC, in the end of the Warring States period; being...

District, prefecture-level city of Huzhou, of Zhejiang province (浙江). The Inkstick (Chinese: 墨; pinyin: mò, Korean: 묵 muk, Vietnamese: 墨 mực, Japanese: 墨...

brush (筆, fude) An inkstick (墨, sumi).The hardened mixture of vegetable or pine soot and glue in the shape of a stick. The best inksticks are between 50 and...

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brush was invented in China around 300 B.C. Together with the inkstone, inkstick and Xuan paper, these four writing implements form the Four Treasures of...