Abstract: A monoazo lake which comprises a monoazo dye, a lake-forming metal and a water-insoluble metal salt of a rosin, and which is coated with the water-insoluble water salt of the rosin, the lake-forming metal being at least one metal selected from calcium, barium and strontium, the metal of the water-insoluble metal salt being at least one metal selected from zinc, aluminum, copper and manganese, and a process for the production of a monoazo lake coated with a water-insoluble metal salt of a rosin, which comprises carrying out the following steps (1) and (2) in the order of (1) to (2) or (2) to (1):(1) a step of forming a monoazo lake by forming a lake of a monoazo dye with a metal salt of at least one metal for formation of a lake of the monoazo dye selected from calcium, barium and strontium, and(2) a step of forming the water-insoluble metal salt of the rosin by insolubilizing the rosin with a metal salt of at least one metal for insolubilization of the rosin selected from zinc, aluminum, copper and manganese.