marbling print; paper marbling
A traditional Japanese technique of floating ink on water and transferring the pattern to paper. Also refers to the resulting print.
Suminagashi is a technique of dropping ink onto water to create patterns.
This suminagashi paper is really beautiful, isn't it?
Standard kanji spelling for the traditional marbling technique.
Compound of 墨 (sumi, 'ink') and 流し (nagashi, 'flowing'), referring to the process of ink spreading on water.