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Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Sailor Kujukuri Coast Hamachidori


This is review #187 in my series.  Here's the YouTube video:


Post-recording notes: Cleaning was quick and easy. I really like this color.  While it's a near match for Diamine Earl Grey, I don't remember liking Earl Grey this much, but then memory is unreliable... It's grey with a hint of lavender (to my eyes) and the wetter the writing, the more lavender shows through, so I expect drier pens would make it look more grey, wetter pens more lavender-grey.


The screenshot loses the lavender (to my eyes). The scan shows it a little better. The absorbent and copy paper images show a bit too much lavender. And the zoom seems just about right. :) Nothing I could do would convince the microscope software that the paper wasn't green, so I picked an area that should have been white, and GIMP gave me white paper and a grey line - my eye, however, easily saw lavender-grey through the eyepiece.


The line width measurement is one of the lines used for dry time.  Magnification is 100x.  The grid is 100x100µm.  The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each.  The line width for this ink is roughly 315µm. (For the curious, with 187 inks measured, the average line width is 293µm.)


The microscope slide showed grey with islands of pink scattered at random throughout, but no interesting patterns. Therefore, I didn't bother including an image.


And here is a screen of the final result, for those not interested in the video:
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Scan of Completed Review:
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Zoomed in photo:
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Absorbent Paper Closeup (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper):
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Line width measured via microscope at 100x:
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Images also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap.


Previous Review: Noodler's Borealis Black.


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Hope you enjoy.  Comments appreciated!

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Great job, Liz :thumbup:  Really nice colour!

Poor Makhabesh he's out of the frame! But keep Essri's lisp.. with out a lisp, he'll be just another snek ;)

 

 

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Thanks @LizEF - great review of an ink I didn't know.

 

I'm not sure if I like it or not, I love greys, but I think this might have a touch too much lavender for me. Luckily, the chances of my getting hold of it are so slim that it doesn't really matter either way! 

 

When he has a moment, could I borrow the little snek to help me find a couple of missing pens, and my entire summer wardrobe?

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29 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Great job, Liz :thumbup:  Really nice colour!

Thanks!  Yes, it's even nicer in person. :)

 

29 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Poor Makhabesh he's out of the frame! But keep Essri's lisp.. with out a lisp, he'll be just another snek ;)

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30 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

Thanks for the great review!

 

The color reminds me a lot of Scabiosa, a favorite that I just got through using tonight.

You're very welcome.  It's much more grey than Scabiosa, which looks bright and colorful by comparison. :)

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7 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

Thanks @LizEF - great review of an ink I didn't know.

You're very welcome!  I think discovery of this ink line belongs to @A Smug Dill - at least, that's where I got the samples I have.  As far as I can tell, it's not available at any US retailer.

 

9 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

I'm not sure if I like it or not, I love greys, but I think this might have a touch too much lavender for me.

On non-white paper, the lavender basically disappears.

 

9 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

Luckily, the chances of my getting hold of it are so slim that it doesn't really matter either way! 

Exactly. :)

 

9 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

When he has a moment, could I borrow the little snek to help me find a couple of missing pens, and my entire summer wardrobe?

:lol:🐍 If you can find a Muirdoor to bring him through, I'm sure he'll be game to help you.

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4 hours ago, LizEF said:

I think discovery of this ink line belongs to @A Smug Dill - at least, that's where I got the samples I have.  As far as I can tell, it's not available at any US retailer.

 

It was practically a single-retail-source ink to prospective customers outside of the Far East, as far as I know. Back when Rakuten Global Market was operating and sellers on it were not persuaded by Rakuten to decline to ship directly to overseas buyers, You STYLE was the only one to offer this line of inks (on RGM, Rakuten Ichiba, as well as eBay).

 

It is now exceeding difficult to get liquid products shipped out of Japan as a consumer (or piecemeal); I had issues with Rakuten Global Express as a forwarding 're-shipper' service even as far back as the first half of 2019, even though Australian Customs has absolutely no problem with imports of ink via post or services such as DHL.

 

I remember scouring the Internet for more of this line of ink in 2021, and saw that there was a bricks-and-mortar retailer in Hong Kong offering its last bottles on clearance prices; but of course it wouldn't have a bar of shipping overseas, and I couldn't find a forwarding service in HK that would ship five bottles of ink to me in Australia.

 

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I've seen someone else on FPN with these inks, and they most likely got them before I ever heard of Rakuten. I think it was @lgsoltek, but I'll need to do so searching to ascertain. 

 

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5 minutes ago, LizEF said:

So, if I'm reading you right, @A Smug Dill, you're saying, "Just buy Diamine Earl Grey!"?  ;) :D

 

Well, ... no.

 

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Quite a beatiful ink this time - grey-purples or purple-greys are among my favourite inks. This one looks gorgeous!

If - as you say - the zoom is about just right in capturing the colour, it looks fairly close to Sailor Jentle Chu Shu. And since I have a bottle of that one, I will not be too disappointed about Hamachidori’s scarcity.

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51 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

Well, ... no.

D'oh!  OK, no lavendery grey ink for anyone (outside Japan)! :D

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26 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

If - as you say - the zoom is about just right in capturing the colour, it looks fairly close to Sailor Jentle Chu Shu. 

 

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29 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

If - as you say - the zoom is about just right in capturing the colour, it looks fairly close to Sailor Jentle Chu Shu. And since I have a bottle of that one, I will not be too disappointed about Hamachidori’s scarcity.

Chu Shu is much darker and possibly a little more blue (in my pen and on my swatch cards, at least).

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35 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Chu Shu is much darker and possibly a little more blue (in my pen and on my swatch cards, at least).

@LizEF good to know

 

36 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

@A Smug DillThanks for the point to the comparison!

 

Well … similar enough to get over my disappointment about there being no chance to get the hamachidori. So no need to drop on the floor banging my fists and crying like a baby that “I want this ink”.

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2 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

I remember scouring the Internet for more of this line of ink in 2021, and saw that there was a bricks-and-mortar retailer in Hong Kong offering its last bottles on clearance prices; but of course it wouldn't have a bar of shipping overseas, and I couldn't find a forwarding service in HK that would ship five bottles of ink to me in Australia.

 

Might they still be there? If so, I have a good friend in HK..

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Might they still be there? If so, I have a good friend in HK..

 

I wouldn't know. It isn't as if I've bookmarked the shop's website and kept the information around for over a year, to revisit from time to time in the hope that they'll change their mind about shipping orders directly to Australia. All I can say is there are/were stockists of this line of Sailor ‘limited edition’ inks in Hong Kong and mainland China. The inks were originally supplied in the 50ml Sailor ink pots with a round footprint, but I see that since those were sold out, the line has been refreshed and is now supplied in the ‘new’ 50ml Sailor ink bottles with a rectangular footprint. So, your friend may be able to find them for you.

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Thank you @LizEFfor the review and for the story part.

While lavender-grey can a nice and elegant colour, this one is a bit too grey for my taste.

In other words:

"I have a grey in my lavender"

"And no one offered to fix it?"

😊

 

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10 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you @LizEFfor the review and for the story part.

You're very welcome!

 

10 hours ago, InesF said:

While lavender-grey can a nice and elegant colour, this one is a bit too grey for my taste.

In other words:

"I have a grey in my lavender"

"And no one offered to fix it?"

:lol:

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