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In 1911, Mr. Kyugoro Sakata, an engineer from Hiroshima in Japan, was introduced to the fountain pen. Mr. Sakata was so intrigued by the design and function of the pen he decided to begin a company to craft the finest writing instruments in the world. In honor of his British friend, he chose to name the company Sailor Pen.




The Sailor Pen Company has maintained this heritage of quality and technical perfection over the years. Apart from offering very well made pens, the company has employed an ink master - pure genius who's managed to create greates fountain pen inks ever (it's my opinion not validated by research but shared by many of us). I would guess that during the years Sailor created approximately 600-800 inks (most of them under other names).




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One of internatioonally available line of Sailor inks is Sailor Jentle line. At the moment we have two of them. The new one reintroduces colors that were missed by hundreds of geeks. I'vwe bought full line of new Jentle inks and I'll review them all in following weeks. The inks are:



  1. Chu-shu
  2. Fuji-musume
  3. Irori
  4. Kin-mokusei
  5. Rikyu-cha
  6. Sakura-mori
  7. Waka-uguisu
  8. Yuki-akari

Today I'll say few words about




Kin-mokusei



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Kin-mokusei can be considered an heir to long gone Sailor's Apricot ink. It is a bright yellow-orange that offers a generous amount of shading. The flow is good, with low feathering and bleedthrough. Saturation is rather moderate and dry times are in the 20-25 second range. Kin-Mokusei has no water resistance.



While I like orange inks this one is too "sweet" to my taste. I won't use it but I can understand why it may appeal to many people.




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Drops of ink on kitchen towel





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Color ID




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Color range




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Tomoe River, Kaweco AL Sport, broad nib




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Leuchtturm1917, Kaweco AL Sport, broad nib



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Kokuyo Campus Myo, TWSBI 580, stub 1,1



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No-name notebook, TWSBI 580, stub 1,1




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Midori MD, Kaweco Sport, B



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This color reminds me of orange popsicles from childhood. I suspect it will be a popular ink, and this will be a popular review.

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Love my Kin-Mokusei !!!.. :wub: :wub:

 

 

Thanks for the wonderful review Vis... I have one bottle of Apricot and now one of Kin-M.... I am good. ;)

 

 

 

 

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Thanks for this review, vis; I'm especially pleased to see how the color is quite consistent across the different papers. Where Rikyu-cha didn't appeal to me, this one does, big time, and I just placed my order.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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In this case Sakura-mori comes next ;)

 

Nah... too bland.. teach them a real lesson and do Irori next.... :lol: :lol:

 

 

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Nice, really nice! :) Thank you for the review!

 

 

Chu-shu next, Chu-shu next . . . http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/hi-there-smiley.gif?1292867616

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Thanks for the review.

As for the ink, it's orange. It looks to have nice shading. But it's still orange. So, nope. Taking a pass on this one.

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Great review and a beautiful ink! I feel as though it would be a wonderful autumn ink, as it reminds me of foliage peeping trips with Mrs.

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Strange how you can actually see the inside of the bottle, with the ink in there. I think the color is pretty, but a bit on the light side.

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My bottle arrived today and it's everything I hoped it would be. The color is absolutely stunning. This is orange, done right.

 

I put it in the little silver and orange OHTO Rook compact I got a couple weeks ago and the ink is a pretty close match to the pen. I was afraid, being a fine, that it might be too dry but it's not only more like a Western fine, it's nice and wet, too, wet enough to provide both oodles of shading and that lovely, silvery sheen.

 

I was feeling a little down after my most recent ink disappointment and this has picked my spirits right up.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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