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Provided is a porphyrazine dye suitable for use in ink-jet recording, the porphyrazine dye giving a cyan ink with a satisfactory hue, having various excellent fastness properties, in particular, ozone resistance, and attaining a high color density. Also provided is an ink composition containing the dye. The porphyrazine dye is a porphyrazine dye represented by formula (1) or a salt thereof. In formula (1), rings A to D each independently represents a benzene ring, a nitrogenous heteroaromatic ring, etc.; E represents an alkylene; X represents sulfoanilino, etc.; R represents a hydrogen atom, sulfo, carboxy, etc.; group F represents phenyl, a nitrogenous heteroaromatic ring, etc.; a is an integer of 1-6; b is 0.00-3.90, excluding 3.90, on average; c is 0.10-4.00, excluding 4.00, on average; and the sum of b and c is 1.00-4.00, excluding 4.00, on average. |