These are not regular watercolors. They are something in between sumi ink and watercolor combined into one pan.
Boku-Undo has been making sumi ink in Nara since 1805. The Ezumi series came from asking a simple question: what happens when you take the same soot that goes into traditional ink sticks and combine it with watercolor pigments and gum arabic? The answer is a paint that behaves like neither one alone.

Touch it with a wet brush and the color melts immediately. Use it thick and it gives you the depth and presence of sumi. Dilute it and the soot particles carry the color into the paper in a way pure watercolor cannot replicate.
The Mei set is the shadow palette, six muted tones with enough brightness to carry color, enough sumi to stay grounded. Shadow pink, shadow yellow, shadow green, shadow blue, shadow purple, shadow vermillion. Not the colors of a summer afternoon. The colors of light at the edges of things.

The packaging dividers are made from kome-kami- paper produced from rice no longer suitable for consumption. Even the box is considered.

6 solid watercolor pans per set
Maker: Boku-Undo, Nara, Japan, est. 1805
Sourced from Sekaido, Tokyo