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Inkstick, the Glossary

Inksticks or ink cakes are a type of solid Chinese ink used traditionally in several Chinese and East Asian art forms such as calligraphy and brush painting.^[1]

41 relations: Animal glue, Biancaea sappan, Brush, Calligraphy, Chinese herbology, Clove, Crazing, Egg white, Four Treasures of the Study, Fraxinus, Gongbi, Graphite, Han dynasty, Incense, India ink, Ink brush, Ink wash painting, Inkstone, Lacquer, Lard, Liquidambar orientalis, Ming dynasty, Mortar and pestle, Musk, Musk deer, Northern Wei, Pearl, Pine, Qin dynasty, Santalum album, Shang dynasty, Shuowen Jiezi, Soot, Soybean oil, Symphytum, Tea seed oil, Traditional Chinese medicine, Tung oil, Warring States period, Xu Shen, Zhou dynasty.
Chinese calligraphy
East Asian calligraphy
Inks

Animal glue

Animal glue is an adhesive that is created by prolonged boiling of animal connective tissue in a process called rendering.

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Biancaea sappan

Biancaea sappan is a species of flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is native to tropical Asia.

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Brush

A brush is a common tool with bristles, wire or other filaments.

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Calligraphy

Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing.

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Chinese herbology

Chinese herbology is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

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Clove

Cloves are the aromatic flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum.

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Crazing

Crazing is a yielding mechanism in polymers characterized by the formation of a fine network of microvoids and fibrils.

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Egg white

Egg white is the clear liquid (also called the albumen or the glair/glaire) contained within an egg.

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Four Treasures of the Study is an expression used to denote the brush, ink, paper and ink stone used in Chinese calligraphy and spread into other East Asian calligraphic traditions. Inkstick and Four Treasures of the Study are Chinese calligraphy, east Asian calligraphy and visual arts materials.

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Fraxinus

Fraxinus, commonly called ash, is a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae, and comprises 45–65 species of usually medium-to-large trees, most of which are deciduous trees, although some subtropical species are evergreen trees.

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Gongbi

Gongbi is a careful realist technique in Chinese painting, the opposite of the interpretive and freely expressive xieyi (寫意 'sketching thoughts') style.

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Graphite

Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon. Inkstick and Graphite are visual arts materials.

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Han dynasty

The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.

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Incense

Incense is an aromatic biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt.

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India ink

India ink (British English: Indian ink; also Chinese ink) is a simple black or coloured ink once widely used for writing and printing and now more commonly used for drawing and outlining, especially when inking comic books and comic strips. Inkstick and India ink are Chinese inventions, inks and visual arts materials.

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Ink brush

Ink brushes are paintbrushes used in Chinese calligraphy as well as in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese which all have roots in Chinese calligraphy. Inkstick and ink brush are Chinese calligraphy, Chinese inventions and east Asian calligraphy.

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Ink wash painting

Ink wash painting (p); is a type of Chinese ink brush painting which uses washes of black ink, such as that used in East Asian calligraphy, in different concentrations.

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Inkstone

An inkstone is traditional Chinese stationery. Inkstick and inkstone are Chinese calligraphy, Chinese inventions, east Asian calligraphy and visual arts materials.

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Lacquer

Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal.

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Lard

Lard is a semi-solid white fat product obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of a pig.

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Liquidambar orientalis

Liquidambar orientalis, commonly known as oriental sweetgum or Turkish sweetgum, is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar, native to the eastern Mediterranean region, that occurs as pure stands mainly in the floodplains of southwestern Turkey and on the Greek island of Rhodes.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Mortar and pestle

A mortar and pestle is a set of two simple tools used to prepare ingredients or substances by crushing and grinding them into a fine paste or powder in the kitchen, laboratory, and pharmacy.

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Musk

Musk is a class of aromatic substances commonly used as base notes in perfumery.

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Musk deer

Musk deer can refer to any one, or all seven, of the species that make up Moschus, the only extant genus of the family Moschidae.

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Northern Wei

Wei, known in historiography as the Northern Wei, Tuoba Wei, Yuan Wei and Later Wei, was an imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei.

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Pearl

A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Qin dynasty

The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China.

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Santalum album

Santalum album is a small tropical tree, and the traditional source of sandalwood oil.

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Shang dynasty

The Shang dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty, was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou dynasty.

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Shuowen Jiezi

The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–206 CE).

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Soot

Soot is a mass of impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons.

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Soybean oil

Soybean oil (British English: soyabean oil) is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean (Glycine max). Inkstick and soybean oil are Chinese inventions.

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Symphytum

Symphytum is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae, known by the common name comfrey (pronounced, from the Latin confervere to 'heal' or literally to 'boil together', referring to uses in ancient traditional medicine).

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Tea seed oil

Tea seed oil (also known as camellia oil, camellia seed oil, teanut oil) is an edible plant oil.

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Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China.

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Tung oil

Tung oil or China wood oil is a drying oil obtained by pressing the seed from the nut of the tung tree (Vernicia fordii). Inkstick and tung oil are Chinese inventions.

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Warring States period

The Warring States period was an era in ancient Chinese history characterized by warfare, bureaucratic and military reform, and political consolidation.

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Xu Shen

Xu Shen was a Chinese calligrapher, philologist, politician, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty (25–189 CE).

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Zhou dynasty

The Zhou dynasty was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from until 256 BC, the longest of such reign in Chinese history.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkstick

Also known as Ink stick, Sumi ink, .

Inkstick, the Glossary

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Chinese calligraphy

East Asian calligraphy

Inks

References