墨

sumi

tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one)

India-ink painting

certificate

Mexico

writing in India ink

ink painting

Liceo Mexicano Japonés (Mexico)

landscape painting in black India ink

person who has been tattooed as a punishment for a crime (Edo period)

writers and artists

Mexican-American War (1846-1848)

centre line (usu. in buildings, joinery, etc.)

event in which young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Koshōgatsu (in the San'in region)

Japan and Mexico

inkpot

water and ink

meeting place for calligraphers and painters

graphite

Mohism

India-ink drawing

inking the outlines of a picture

old ink stick

poets and artists

marbling print

blotting out characters with ink

(piece of) chalk

printed characters (as opposed to Braille)

adherence (to custom, tradition)

certificate

blackening the face

artist

pomade mixed with lampblack (used for kabuki makeup, etc.)

ink painting style

vermillion stick

ink black

indigo wax shaped as an inkstick

people are formed by their surroundings

tattooing (as a form of punishment in ancient China)

inkstone well

key block (in woodblock printmaking)

brassy chub (Kyphosus vaigiensis)

autographs (brushwork) of departed person

dyeing black

resuming writing after adding more ink to one's brush

clinging to old customs

priest's black robe

priest's black robe

writing (especially of a Zen monk)

ink sac (in cephalopods)

woodblock printing done with black ink only

scented India ink

India ink

standard

stationery

diametric opposites

Asian constable (species of butterfly, Dichorragia nesimachus)

cuttlefish

thin India ink

thick India ink

inked marking string

pale Indian ink

ink line

squid ink

squid ink

standard black (in printing)

vermilion ink stick

whitecheek shark (Carcharhinus dussumieri)

shoe polish

Chinese ink

India ink

banks of the Sumida river

Confucius and Mozi (ancient Chinese philosophers)

soot on the bottom of a pot or pan

bell-shaped inkstick made from pine soot and wax

ink marks

floating goby (Gymnogobius petschiliensis)

eyebrow pencil

pitch and length marks (to accompany a Buddhist liturgical chant, etc.)

Mitsui Sumitomo credit card

grind your inkstick gently but move your brush vigorously

indigo wax shaped as an inkstick

Confucianism and Mohism

golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta)

ink sac (in cephalopods)

brush and ink

in bold, vivid brush strokes

inked marking string