Wancher Original Inks - Asuka

January 13, 2011

See the original blogpost here: Inky Monday - Wancher Original Inks - asuka

This is the second review on the series of inks called the Silk Road Reserved Inks. Please see my previous review here.

This time we are looking at asuka brown. The following is from Raul's description on eBay:

NEW Colorful Silk Road Journey Asuka Brown Color Ink

This color is derived from the Asuka Period in Japan. The Asuka Period was from 592-645, concentrated in Nara. At that time, Nara was the capital of the Japan and was a major destination on the Silk Road.

The Asuka period developed the Japanese Architecture in very connoisseur way. It was this architectures brown color which had long lasting impression on the Japanese color history. If you carefully observe the history you will notice a very strange connection of this brown color.

On the silk road, as Japan got its brown color from Asuka period and meanwhile this architecture was highly influence from the Indian subcontinents Harrapa-Mohenjodaro cities.

This is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. It was located along the South of Pakistan in Indus valley. It was a civilization of around 35,000 people with central administrative structure and architecture. The cities were majorly built by brown colored bricks. The entire architecture of stupa was buried after the extinction of this civilization. Later in 19

^th

century these cities were excavated and stupa layout was discovered

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Click on the photos to enlarge:

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This ink is REALLY close to Iroshizuku's Tsukushi, horsetail brown. I like this brown, ALOT.

Edited January 14, 2011 by Ann Finley