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I love Sailor yama-dori-I got a bottle of the 50 mL for around $15 last year, but don't want to pay the same amount for less than half of the volume of ink now (the idiotic 20 mL bottles). What are some similar inks with the nice sheen and colour that yama-dori have?

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Fire & Ice and Ku-Jaku come to mind.

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Doggle pick up some YD before it is gone from the 50 ml bottles. It is still available and I saw it recently for $16.

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I have a bottle of Yama-Dori up for sale in the Classifieds. Check the "Inks."

 

Don't buy it. I'm going to lower the price tomorrow when I can "push" the sale top the top of the list.

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To add to the chorus. Ku-Jaku

edit to add. Maybe Eau de Nil

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Add lightness and simplicate.

 

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Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku for color, definitely--the closest I've seen. However they look a bit different on paper. Yama-Dori lays down a drier line, more matte, whereas Ku-Jaku is more "liquidy" in the great Iroshizuku tradition. More sheen from Yama-Dori.

 

If you want 50ml bottle of Yama-Dori, do check to see if your local pen shops might have a few bottles in stock. There's always a chance. My on-line order was cancelled, as the shop I ordered from changed their description from 50ml bottles to the new 20ml bottles, and I'm considering picking up a bottle or two locally, though at $18 + tax per each (not as good of a deal as $14-16).

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I'm thankful that Sailor has not actually ceased production of (apparently) such a wildly popular ink among consumers, in spite of what some fountain pen users mistaken believe and in turn have been spreading 'fake news' about. The demand sure justifies continued supply, even if there is a new equilibrium price that I hope proves to be as commercially profitable as Sailor must be hoping, once some fans start withholding their custom for either budgetary reasons or in protest.

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Fire & Ice and Ku-Jaku come to mind.

 

 

+1 Those are both very close and so close to each other that it's not worth buying one if you already have the other.

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I can see Beaufort Peacock working, although its slightly more dull compared to Yama-dori. Try Robert Oster Velvet Storm if you dont mind a bit more green, its like a darker version of Deep Sea.

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+1 Those are both very close and so close to each other that it's not worth buying one if you already have the other.

 

Fire & Ice is significantly more vivid blue-turquoise compared to Yama Dori and Ku Jaku. I would say Ku Jaku is the closest to Yama Dori but very slightly more blue (and less sheening/less dry).

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You wouldn't know it by the sample - But Robert Oster's "Great Southern Ocean" is a dead wringer.

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Fire & Ice and Ku-Jaku come to mind.

 

 

It's becoming apparent that I love this color family because I have all 3.

 

 

 

 

AND I have Emerald of Chivor. Yikes.

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KWZ Valk Over Vistula

 

WoV is more blue, I think maybe Baltic Memories would be closer.

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Diamine aurora borealis - sheening ink in dark teal color of similar value/saturation but not as blue as Yama-dori so it's slightly different hue, there was nice comparison on reddit

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