The invention is to provide an aqueous ink, a recorded image and a
recording method capable of improving an image fastness and a
color-developing property of a recorded image, and is featured in that
components of the aqueous ink are so prepared as to realize, at least on
a surface portion of a recording medium, a fixed state of an ink droplet
in which a contour portion of a second coloring material is formed around
a central portion in which a first coloring material is fixed.