Disclosed are a microencapsulated color material for use in an ink composition which is excellent in dispersion stability, ejection stability, color-producing property, fastness of images and scratch resistance, resists smearing and can produce a recorded material with a high image density, an ink composition comprising the color material, an ink-jet recording method and others. The surface of a core material such as a color particle (e.g., a pigment particle) is coated with a wall material mainly composed of 1) a polymer (A) and 2) a polymer (B) to microencapsulate the core material, whereinthe polymer (A) has an ionic group and a hydrophobic group, and the polymer (B) has at least a repeating constitution unit derived from a first polymerizable surfactant and a repeating constituent unit derived from a second polymerizable surfactant and/or a hydrophilic monomer and/or a hydrophobic monomer, the first polymerizable surfactant has an ionic group having the opposite charge to the charge of the polymer (A), a hydrophobic group and a polymerizable group, the second polymerizable surfactant has the same or opposite charge as or to the charge of the first polymerizable surfactant, and the hydrophilic monomer and/or the hydrophobic monomer has the same or opposite charge as or to the charge of the polymer (A). The microencapsulated color material can be mixed with an aqueous medium to prepare an ink composition. The ink composition can be used in an ink-jet recording method.