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(57) [Summary] (Corrected) [PROBLEMS] To provide an ink capable of obtaining a recorded matter having a metallic luster and achieving a recorded matter having high weather resistance, and an ink jet recording method using the same. SOLUTION: An ink containing a metal fine particle dispersed in a liquid medium as a coloring material, and an ink jet recording method. Metal fine particles are colloidal particles of a metal produced by reducing a metal compound to a metal in a solution containing a metal compound and a polymer dispersant having at least one of a main chain and a plurality of side chains having a pigment affinity group. It is. |