To provide an ink jet recording sheet which has an excellent image resistance such as glossiness, a light resistance and ozone-proofness or the like while good ink accepting performance is maintained, and which has high resolution without coloring or the like of a surface of the sheet.

The ink jet recording sheet comprises at least one type selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the formula (1), its salt and a tautomer, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group or the like.