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Sailor Kobe #21 Taisan-Ji Temple Yellow

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I got a sample of this ink from another FPN member in an ink trade. It normally isn't a color that I'd fancy, but the online examples made it seem more of a yellow-orange and that was interesting to me. The actual color was more of a yellow ochre. Not bad, quite readable, fairly shady. But it still didn't interest me. I'm sure there are people that like this kind of color.

 

It is totally not water resistant. Once wet, it lifts right from the page. If water washes over it you might recover the writing by letting it drain away, and drying the page without blotting. If you spill wine, coffee, or tea, fuggetaboutit.

 

Pen: Pelikan M200 (M-steel)

Papers: MvL=Mohawk via Linen, TR=Tomoe River, Hij=Hammermill 28 lb inkjet, Rhodia=Rhodia 90g ivory.

Camera: iPhone 7

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Thank you for another experienced & thoughtful review. I have restrained myself from ordering immediately, but imagine I will decide I need this one because I do like this color & appreciate your showing it to us.

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You're welcome. The standard images from Kobe Nagasawa (as seen at Vanness and on Amazon) show an ochre-like color on the bottle label and a more intense dark yellow/yellow-orange in the writing sample. Lgsoltek's review says it's similar to J. Herbin Ambre de Birmanie and it can be quite a bit darker with a wet flexy nib in his examples. visvamitra held in his review that it was "one of the nicest yellows" and he liked it quite a bit. Perhaps he'll tell us if that is still so.

 

As others mention in their reviews, this is a very readable yellow, quite shady. A lot of positive qualities. I think you'll like this one.

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Thanks for the nice review. Very good descriptions. "Amber" is the first synonym which popped in....

 

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Thank you for another experienced & thoughtful review. I have restrained myself from ordering immediately, but imagine I will decide I need this one because I do like this color & appreciate your showing it to us.

 

 

You know you want this one.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thank you, White Lotus. I too must confess that I don't use these colors all that often. I did enjoy my sample.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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You know you want this one.

Oh, not to worry, I filled a Visconti stub nib this afternoon with it.

 

Once I read white-lotus's review of Kobe 1, Rokko Green, I dashed to my ink cupboard, for which I thank you each time I slide back a glass door & poke about, to make sure I didn't have same. SOoooooo, since I was going to have to order ONE ink from Vanness, why not make it TWO?

 

Temple Yellow & Rokko Green arrived today & are both filled up! (I did force myself to clean five pens tonite because I had filled 8 in the last three days; I can never "wait" to see what they look like..........)

 

The worst was one day I declined an offer from a friend who was ordering some inks from Europe & offered to include me; I declined & said I wasn't all that crazy about them............within 2 hours, I had also ordered the same inks!

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LOL... well, I'm inking of you!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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