Akashiya plum flower shaped palettes allow you to separate colours or different saturations of a single colour from each other, or from ink. Your review was very helpful, and I use the Gansal Tambi colors on Rice paper, but I am still wondering what the pigments are and how lightfast they are. One of the best ways to boost your creativity is to try something new and take yourself out of your comfort zone.

Koubai - Japanese Apricot - also known as Japanese plum, this colour is named after much beloved subject matter for painting and poetry in East Asia.To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.

Conversely, gansai traditionally uses animal glue as a binder, however most modern Japanese gansai brands favour glucose (or beeswax, glue, starch etc. When you add wet paint to paint that has started to dry, you get a liquid flow that pushes the paint into flower-like shapes.Thanks for your review, Marialena… the problem with mixing may be due to the pigment content in each of the colours.