Ebake is a brush used in Japanese paintings (nihonga) to ground or paint large areas in lines of a uniform width with sumi ink or nihonga paint. The width of commonly used ebake is between 1 sun (approx. 3cm) and 5 sun (approx. 15cm) available in

A brush cleaner is a container used to wash paint and dirt from brushes for Japanese painting, watercolors, acrylic, and other water-based paints. There are several types of brush cleaner available. They vary in capacity and portability, depending

Coloring brushes in Japanese art are round painting brushes capable of full-textured pigmenting. Artists can use them freely for purposes ranging from applying delicate colors to making bold strokes on wide surfaces. They are thus widely used in a va

Artists use kumadori brushes, also known as bokashi brushes, to create bleed effects in ink or paint. Unlike other brushes, artists do not directly apply paint with a kumadori brush. Rather, they load the brush with water and apply it to still-wet pa