Recording method and recording apparatus

A recording method to perform recording on a recording medium in a manner such that while a relative position between an ink jet head and the recording medium is transferred, a scan to eject an ink from the ink jet head so as to be adhered to the recording medium is performed a plurality of times for the recording, the method comprising:

• adhering a treatment liquid containing an aggregating agent to the recording medium, the aggregating agent containing a polyvalent metal salt, an organic acid, or a cationic resin;
• ejecting a color ink composition containing a colorant from the ink jet head so as to be adhered to the recording medium;
• and
• ejecting a clear ink composition containing a resin from the ink jet head so as to be adhered to the recording medium, the resin contained in the clear ink composition containing resin particles,
• wherein the clear ink composition is not the same as the treatment liquid,
• the color ink composition is adhered to the same scan region by performing the scan at least two times,
• the clear ink composition is adhered by the same scan as a final scan of the at least two scans to a scan region of the recording medium to which the color ink composition is adhered, and
• an adhesion amount of the clear ink composition adhered by the final scan in the region to which the color ink composition and the clear ink composition are adhered is 80 percent by mass or more of a total adhesion amount of the clear ink composition in the region.