An ink composition for inkjet recording includes a (meth)acrylic resin, a polymerization initiator, and a polymerizable compound. The (meth)acrylic resin includes a skeleton structure derived from a multifunctional thiol that is trifunctional to hexafunctional, and plural polymer chains connected to the skeleton structure by a sulfide bond, each of the plural polymer chains including at least two kinds of (meth)acrylic repeating units selected from the group consisting of a repeating unit derived from a (meth)acrylate having a C1-C8 linear, C3-C8 branched, C3-C8 alicyclic, or C6-C8 aromatic hydrocarbon group which may include an oxygen atom, a repeating unit derived from a (meth)acrylate having a C9-C10 alicyclic hydrocarbon group, and a repeating unit derived from (meth)acrylic acid, in an amount of more than 90 mol % with respect to the total repeating units in the polymer chain. An inkjet recording method uses the ink composition and a printed matter is printed with the ink composition.