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I'm finally about to purchase some of the Iroshizuku inks, and I thought that to space them out a bit I'd try to buy them by season, one or two bottles in each. But some of the colors are tricky to place, if they don't have any specific seasonal markers. Here are my thoughts at the moment, and I'd like to see what you folks think, and how you'd arrange these inks.

 

Spring

 

Aji-sai (hydrangea; unless the Japanese varieties bloom in summer)

Chiku-rin (bamboo forest; no season specified, but it seems a bit pale for summer)

Syo-ro (dew on pine trees; no idea really where this should go but the color reminds me of new pine growth)

Tsuki-yo (moonlight; hard to attach a season, but the color feels vaguely spring-like, maybe?)

Tsukushi (horsetail; Pilot specifies early spring)

Tsutsuji (azalea; they bloom through summer, but I remember seeing Japanese azalea in bloom at the National Arboretum in spring)

 

 

Summer

 

Asa-gao (morning glory)

Kon-peki (the blue of a summer sky)

Ku-jaku (peacock; early summer I think is when they strut about fanning their feathers)

Tsuyu-kusa (Asiatic dayflower)

Yu-yake (sunset; no reason this has to be summer, but sunset-watching feels summery)

 

 

Autumn

 

Shin-kai (deep sea; somehow I picture autumnal storms)

Ina-ho (rice ear; a harvest color)

Kiri-same (autumn mist)

Kosumosu (cosmos flower; I don't know this plant but Pilot says they bloom in autumn)

Momiji (autumn leaves, specifically of the Japanese maple)

Murasaki-shikibu (Japanese beautyberry; looked 'em up, and the berries show up in October)

Take-sumi (bamboo charcoal; this would be the season for making great stores of it)

Yama-budo (wild grape or crimson glory vine)

Yama-guri (wild chestnut)

 

 

Winter

 

Ama-iro (clear, cloudless sky; also hard to place, but possibly a clear sky after snow?)

Fuyu-gaki (winter persimmon)

Fuyu-syogun (Old Man Winter or Shogun of Winter, I've seen both)

Shin-ryoku (forest green; Pilot specifies a deep evergreen forest in winter, so I won't argue)

 

 

Some of these would be difficult to argue (you won't find many morning glory blossoms in January, barring greenhouses, and if you want to tell Pilot their colors with "winter" or "autumn" in the name belong to another season, I'll let you fight that battle ;) ). Others I placed somewhat arbitrarily. So I'm curious to see what you folks think, and how you might change the list.

 

Thoughts?

 

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I like it. I also recall that one of our members, LouErickson started a set of Iroshizuku CRVs. Let me see what he posted.

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Ah hah, I found it: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/274775-iroshizuku-co-razy-view-group-review/

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Lou got called away, but here was his schedule:

 

Iroshizuku - Tsukushi (Horsetail) - CRV - Group Review - 2015-07
Iroshizuku - Asa-gao (Morning Glory) - CRV - Group Review - 2015-08
Iroshizuku - Kiri-same - CRV - Group Review - 2015-09
Iroshizuku - Momiji (Autumn Leaves) - CRV - Group Review - 2015-10
Iroshizuku - Yama-guri (Wild Chestnut) - CRV - Group Review - 2015-11
Iroshizuku - Kon-peki (Deep Cerulean Blue) - CRV - Group Review - 2015-12
Iroshizuku - Take-sumi (Bamboo Charcoal) - CRV - Group Review - 2016-01
Iroshizuku - Ama-iro (Sky Blue) - CRV - Group Review - 2016-02
Iroshizuku - Chiku-rin (Bamboo Forest) - CRV - Group Review - 2016-03
Iroshizuku - Ajisai - CRV (Hydrangea) - Group Review - 2016-04
Iroshizuku - Shin-ryoku (Forest Green) - CRV - Group Review - 2016-05
Iroshizuku - Yama-budo (Crimson Glory Vine) - CRV - Group Review - 2016-06
Iroshizuku - Tsuyu-kusa (Asiatic Dayflower) - CRV - Group Review - 2016-07
Iroshizuku - Tsutsuji (Azalea) - CRV - Group Review - 2016-08
Iroshizuku - Ina-ho (Rice Ear) - CRV - Group Review - 2016-09

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

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Blatherscribe, it seems as if you're sorting them by when the plants they're evoking are in bloom. I think I'd probably rearrange your classifications a bit, based more on the colors themselves. Don't think, for instance, that I'd consider Tsuki-yo to be overly springlike....

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I think your classification seems quite nice. There is nothing more subjective than what season, emotion or association each ink represents to each user, so I think the way the inks "appear" to YOU are the very best way to choose & use them if you like the idea of doing so.

 

Feel free to use the Ku-jaku year round; we had peacocks on our farm when I was growing up & I assure you they are spreading their tails for effect year round! I can also say you & Pilot are "right on the money" about Spring being the season for Horsetail, a wickedly aggressive plant that appears very innocent in Spring, when it is first shooting thru the ground. I love it & yet have fought it each year since purchase, it some 25 years ago.

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Agreed, it's ridiculously subjective and totally unscientific. :) And I have no idea where Tsuki-yo belongs. The moon-viewing festival occurs in Autumn, but I'm not getting an autumnal feeling from the color. Ah well.

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I use Murasaki Shikibu as one of my spring inks (along with R & K Solferino and J Herbin Bleu Myosotis).

 

In The Tale of Genji, which is the work for which Murasaki Shikubu is most famous, there is a character named Murasaki, who is the hero's great love. They live on an estate where there are four ladies, each of whom has her own garden associated with a season. Murasaki has the spring garden.

 

Apart from the literary association, I find the color very spring-like.

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I would put Kosumosu in Summer because I've grown them from seed, and that's when the variety I had started blooming.

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I'm finally about to purchase some of the Iroshizuku inks, and I thought that to space them out a bit I'd try to buy them by season, one or two bottles in each. But some of the colors are tricky to place, if they don't have any specific seasonal markers. Here are my thoughts at the moment, and I'd like to see what you folks think, and how you'd arrange these inks.

 

Spring

 

Aji-sai (hydrangea; unless the Japanese varieties bloom in summer)

Chiku-rin (bamboo forest; no season specified, but it seems a bit pale for summer)

Syo-ro (dew on pine trees; no idea really where this should go but the color reminds me of new pine growth)

Tsuki-yo (moonlight; hard to attach a season, but the color feels vaguely spring-like, maybe?)

Tsukushi (horsetail; Pilot specifies early spring)

Tsutsuji (azalea; they bloom through summer, but I remember seeing Japanese azalea in bloom at the National Arboretum in spring)

 

 

Summer

 

Asa-gao (morning glory)

Kon-peki (the blue of a summer sky)

Ku-jaku (peacock; early summer I think is when they strut about fanning their feathers)

Tsuyu-kusa (Asiatic dayflower)

Yu-yake (sunset; no reason this has to be summer, but sunset-watching feels summery)

 

 

Autumn

 

Shin-kai (deep sea; somehow I picture autumnal storms)

Ina-ho (rice ear; a harvest color)

Kiri-same (autumn mist)

Kosumosu (cosmos flower; I don't know this plant but Pilot says they bloom in autumn)

Momiji (autumn leaves, specifically of the Japanese maple)

Murasaki-shikibu (Japanese beautyberry; looked 'em up, and the berries show up in October)

Take-sumi (bamboo charcoal; this would be the season for making great stores of it)

Yama-budo (wild grape or crimson glory vine)

Yama-guri (wild chestnut)

 

 

Winter

 

Ama-iro (clear, cloudless sky; also hard to place, but possibly a clear sky after snow?)

Fuyu-gaki (winter persimmon)

Fuyu-syogun (Old Man Winter or Shogun of Winter, I've seen both)

Shin-ryoku (forest green; Pilot specifies a deep evergreen forest in winter, so I won't argue)

 

 

Some of these would be difficult to argue (you won't find many morning glory blossoms in January, barring greenhouses, and if you want to tell Pilot their colors with "winter" or "autumn" in the name belong to another season, I'll let you fight that battle ;) ). Others I placed somewhat arbitrarily. So I'm curious to see what you folks think, and how you might change the list.

 

Thoughts?

 

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