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They're all the best! You must get them all! :P

 

+1. Unfortunately, it is a rather large range and it they aren't exactly cheap either. If I had to pick one, I'd go with tsuki-yo. It's a brighter variation of the usually dull blue-black colour.

 

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Overall performance is excellent, and the bottles attractive. Although I find it difficult to enjoy syo-ro, shin-ryoku, kiri-same, and tsutsuji.

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They're wonderful inks and very well behanved. I particularly like Ku-Jaku which is bright without being lurid, Tsukiyo is subtle and a real blue-black IMHO, and Fuyusyogun is just plain cool as a blue-grey. They wonderfully encapsulate the subtleness and complexity of a Japanese aesthetic (wow that sounds a bit pretentious, didn't mean to be, just love these inks - my wife saw them and said "why do you buy inks from anyone else?!").

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In Europe you can always get them from "Missing-Pen.de"

 

Mister Rolf Thiel is a great sales-men, and as far as I believe, a member here, at least he read the board, as I know... He has the widest range of inks I know of, more than 600 to 700 in stock all the time. Since the s&h of Iroshizuku and other japanese inks is not for the cheapest, he sells a bottle for around 20 Euros per 50ml, which is about 30 Dollars.

 

And he is always very helpfull and you can easily communicate in english. He sends packages internationally.

(no affiliblablubb...)

 

Hope that helps ^_^

 

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I've managed to get my grubby little hands on the whole range and I love asa-gao to bits. I haven't seen a more beautiful blue (I love blue inks :D)

 

I also quite like syo-ro and fukugawa-newu (from the Tokyo LE range, it's just a soft colour that I think is so understated). I'm not really a fan of tsuki-yo, while I don't mind the colour, it's stained a number of my pens.

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Pelikan M400 with Pilot Iroshizuku Momiji

Nakaya Kuro-tame Desk Pen with Platinum Blue

Visconti Van Gogh Maxi with Aurora Black

 

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i like yamabudo and Tsutsuji

Heres is the picture i wrote in these inks.

Upper one is the tsutsuji, middle one is yamabudo and the end one is written in montblanc borudo ink.

These all are written in fine nib.

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i like yamabudo and Tsutsuji

Heres is the picture i wrote in these inks.

Upper one is the tsutsuji, middle one is yamabudo and the end one is written in montblanc borudo ink.

These all are written in fine nib.

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i like yamabudo and Tsutsuji

Heres is the picture i wrote in these inks.

Upper one is the tsutsuji, middle one is yamabudo and the end one is written in montblanc borudo ink.

These all are written in fine nib.

 

Thank you very much for the pic!

 

Iroshizuku and Rhodia notepad are the best!

 

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My favorites are (in no particular order):

...Edo-Murasaki

 

 

Edo-Murasaki must be the special Tokyo ink. I have not seen that for sale. Is it only available in Japan?

Thanks!

Arrigatou!

 

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My favorites are (in no particular order):

...Edo-Murasaki

 

 

Edo-Murasaki must be the special Tokyo ink. I have not seen that for sale. Is it only available in Japan?

Thanks!

Arrigatou!

 

Robert

 

こにちは

The Edo murasaki ink is hard to get even in Japan now...it is a limited sales ink..

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My favorites are (in no particular order):

...Edo-Murasaki

 

 

Edo-Murasaki must be the special Tokyo ink. I have not seen that for sale. Is it only available in Japan?

Thanks!

Arrigatou!

 

Robert

 

こにちは

The Edo murasaki ink is hard to get even in Japan now...it is a limited sales ink..

 

heres the edo murasaki written...

have a look...

マタ。ジャネエ。

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Having spent the last few days sampling my new batch of Iroshizuku inks and Sailor Kiwaguru ink I hope these pictures will help provide some reference.

Given that the sun shone for a few minutes today, I attempted to capture some better lighting.

 

 

http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab37/bitsforsale09/1.jpg

 

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http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab37/bitsforsale09/9.jpg

 

 

 

 

Although this thread is for Iroshizuku ink, in my delivery was the Sailor Nano Kiwagura inks, so I may as well sling these in to the mix, along with a few Sailor Jentle Inks.

 

 

 

 

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Kind regards.

 

 

Moby

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Having spent the last few days sampling my new batch of Iroshizuku inks and Sailor Kiwaguru ink I hope these pictures will help provide some reference.

Given that the sun shone for a few minutes today, I attempted to capture some better lighting.

 

 

That is a VERY cool way to show samples of inks. How exactly did you do the lower, solid part of each sample? Thanks so much for sharing this!

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Having spent the last few days sampling my new batch of Iroshizuku inks and Sailor Kiwaguru ink I hope these pictures will help provide some reference.

Given that the sun shone for a few minutes today, I attempted to capture some better lighting.

Kind regards.

 

 

Moby

 

Great! notworthy1.gif you did a great job my friend!!!!

 

thanks a lot!!!

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KUSHBABY " That is a VERY cool way to show samples of inks. How exactly did you do the lower, solid part of each sample? Thanks so much for sharing this! "

 

 

I used a short flat art brush that I generally use for acrylic paints. I had the card bent over, applied a few strokes with the brush dipped in ink then allowed the cards to dry in an upright position to allow for a little gather of ink and thus shading.

 

Glad you approved as it did take a bit of time, then the photography. I suppose its all about the journey eh. It was a great few days. Currently tracking a HUGE parcel onroute from Japan with the full range, so I will extend these colour samples when the parcel arrives.

 

Moby

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Moby,

 

The pictures are great! I see some new inks winging my way soon...

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I'm not really a fan of tsuki-yo, while I don't mind the colour, it's stained a number of my pens.

 

Staining you say? I've tried it in 4 or 5 pens and no such issues thus far :hmm1:

 

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+1 for the Yama-budo. My next choice would be Tsuki-yo, and no staining or bad behavior there either :)

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I should buy the Yama budo.

 

At the moment I loaded my Agatha with the kiri-same and I'm very happy when I write poetry!

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moby

great post - so which do you really like? i also use kiwaguro (nano black) a lot and love jentle blue!

 

out of the iroshizukus i have ku-jaku and tsuyu-kusa - the former being a very nice subtle medium blue depending on which nib i use.

 

from your samples i'd love to have asa-goa and also the sailor jentle brown looks kind of nice.

 

what do you think of the new nano black-blue?

 

regards:

christian

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Is there any seller that can provide samples of all Iroshizuku inks? :unsure:

It would be very interesting to try them all and buy full bottle(s) with confidence.

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