We classify the parcels according to their size: small (main side lower than 20 cm), medium (main side between 20 and 40 cm), large (main side greater than 40 cm); we also associate an appearance attribute: opaque (with a standard, opaque colour), shiny (shiny, often coloured, surface).
The system is used internationally for specifying opaque colours of dyed or pigmented surfaces.
The Kanō school developed two distinctive styles: one featuring bright, opaque colours on gold or silver backgrounds, brilliantly amalgamating bright colour and bold brushwork, and the other a more freehanded, mannered, and bold interpretation of traditional ink monochrome themes.
Here, the artist uses highly animated, modulated strokes of defining ink, judicious, repetitive patterning, and the application of opaque colour to produce a series of carefully joined vignettes that intimately and actively tell the story.
According to Thompson [18], chalk can be replaced by gypsum in order to produce a more opaque colour.
These tones come from organic dyes prepared as lakes, to which fillers are added to obtain an opaque colour (see point "Additives").
Transparent glass, held in place by strips of lead, was used in place of the opaque colours of the original.
Lipstick is usually has a more opaque colour, and a thicker consistency than lip gloss.
While Kaji used brass cloisons and opaque enamel colours only, his successors used silver cloisons and succeeded in making both transparent and translucent enamels.
Decoration consists of plain applied reliefs, applied reliefs painted in bright opaque overglaze colours of blue, red, green, yellow, white, and occasionally gold, or plain surfaces with figures painted in the same overglaze colours.
