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artist　 Satsuki Kitaguchi

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Nihonga

Nihonga is based on painting styles that have evolved for over a thousand years. The materials used are also traditional elements developed during that long history. In general, the support is paper, silk, wood, or plaster, to which sumi ink, mineral pigments, white gofun (a white pigment made from pulverized seashells), animal or vegetable coloring materials, and other natural pigments were applied, with nikawa, an animal glue, as the adhesive. Gold and other metals (in gold leaf and other forms) were also effectively incorporated in paintings.