To provide a visible light-absorbing material which improves the visible light-absorbing ability and light emitting intensity of pigments, and to provide a borate for luminous materials.

A visible light-absorbing composition comprises a visible light-absorbing pigment and a borate to whose boron atom an aryl group having an electron-withdrawing group is bound, and a visible light-absorbing pigment. The composition has high absorbing ability in a visible light region and a light-emitting intensity, and is useful as an optical filter material for thin displays, an optical information-recording material, and a light-emitting material.