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This is one of Sailor's custom inks for a particular shop in Japan, in this case the Ishida Bungu shop on Hokkaido. According to google maps, it's a 7 hour journey by train from Tokyo. They have a small line of six inks focusing on the food, places, and colors of that area. I bought the full set.

 

This is their custom black. Most people are thinking "Why spend extra money for a black ink? Are you crazy?" I think I am crazy lucky to have bought this ink, for it is special. It can be shady, and on the right paper it will sheen. I think it's a great soft black. Being based on a sumi color (as in hue) it is not a deep, soul-sucking black like Aurora black, but it's black enough to be readily seen as black without compromise. The ink drop shows there is a deep blue and a bit of yellow in the mix.

 

The papers used were Mohawk via Linen, Hammermill 28lb inkject, and Tomoe River.

 

None of the Ishida Bungu inks are listed as available on their web site as far as I can tell. I'm basing that on no "Buy" or "Add to Cart" button as there is no mention of them being out of stock per se, or when they'll be available again.

 

Photos from the iPhone, so not the best. I made adjustments and you can get the feel I think for the ink. The picture for the Hammermill paper has way too much red in it overall.

 

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Well, it looks good with your writing!

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I bought this one based on the swab on the Ishida Bungu site, which looks like your ink blot. I was expecting a blue-black, and was initially disappointed to find otherwise. However, I'm not sure I used it in a wet enough pen to get sheen. What color was the sheen you saw?

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I bought this one based on the swab on the Ishida Bungu site, which looks like your ink blot. I was expecting a blue-black, and was initially disappointed to find otherwise. However, I'm not sure I used it in a wet enough pen to get sheen. What color was the sheen you saw?

What color do you experience?

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What color do you experience?

 

I've only used it once, but I think it was on Tomoe River, and possibly looked a bit less blue than the one above.

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I bought this one based on the swab on the Ishida Bungu site, which looks like your ink blot. I was expecting a blue-black, and was initially disappointed to find otherwise. However, I'm not sure I used it in a wet enough pen to get sheen. What color was the sheen you saw?

It seems silvery. But I just checked and it doesn't sheen in natural sunlight. In the shade it looked liked shiny reddish. In artificial light, it was more silvery. I notice it more when I tilt the paper at an angle, not sure if that's normal. This is in an Edison pen with a steel nib, labeled Fine but I rarely see much difference in volume of ink on the paper between M and F with these Sailor inks. Maybe a stub would show something different, but I tend not to use them.

 

I don't buy inks because they sheen, that's not my thing.

 

In the converter the ink looks like a blue-black, but in the one pen so far where I've used it definitely writes as black. And based on the description translated by Google at their web site, that was the intent: to capture the traditional black used in the particular historic building used as a model (the prefecture magistrate's building as I understand it).

 

swanjun, if you don't like the ink, or decide you wouldn't want it, I'd be interested in taking it off your hands. If you want to keep it that's ok too.

 

ps the ink blot is only blue at the edges, the center is black.

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swanjun, if you don't like the ink, or decide you wouldn't want it, I'd be interested in taking it off your hands. If you want to keep it that's ok too.

 

I have actually had a resurgence of interest in black inks, so I'm looking forward to trying this one again. :)

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Great! It's funny, after several folks mentioned that they thought the ink was a blue, I noticed the ink in the converter looked blue. And on some papers it appears as a deep, neutral blue, while on others it appears more black. That reminds me of Sailor's Do-you which sometimes appears very deep brown (ebony) and other times more black.

 

I hope you get much enjoyment from this ink.

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