rokushou　緑青

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Also *iwarokushou 岩緑青. A green pigment *ganryou 顔料, made of powdered malachite, a form of basic copper carbonate. The most important green colour in oriental 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 rokushou to reduce the size of the particles. A blue-green pigment whose colour is halfway between dark blue *gunjou 群青, and rokushou is known as gunroku 群緑. Paints made from mineral pigments like rokushou are known as *iwa-enogu 岩絵具.

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