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A cyan ink, for ink jet recording, capable of realizing good lightfastness and waterfastness and, in addition, capable of realizing a good image, especially an image having good hue, and an ink set comprising the above cyan ink in combination with a magenta ink and a yellow ink are provided. The use of a combination of C.I. Pigment Blue 60, 22, 64, or 21 with C.I. Pigment Blue 15:3 as a cyan ink enables the formation of a good image. An ink set comprising this cyan ink composition in combination with a yellow ink comprising C.I. Pigment Yellow 109 and C.I. Pigment Yellow 110 and a magenta ink comprising C.I. Pigment Red 122 or C.I. Pigment Red 209 can realize a good image. |