EFNIR: Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-guri

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-guri

This is review #290 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: This is a dark, sort of muted brown.  It's darker when wet and lightens a little as it dries.  When the feed is saturated, it's almost black in low lighting.  The color falls right between the two comparison colors in the video. The microscope slide was boring, though there were pink splots scattered widely through the smear. Cleaning was quick and easy with just plain water.

Dry time: there were no smudges on the 12, 15, and 16 -second marks, so your dry time could be faster, depending on how your pen / writing style puts down ink...

Klaw joined us during the writing sample - he had been sleeping in the room where I record videos and decided to come up on the desk and see what I was doing.  You may hear sounds, but he didn't go under the camera.  (Smoke would have gotten right in there, but Klaw is more polite.)

(The final sentence of the writing sample / story should be all in print, none in italics / cursive.)

Zoomed in photo (This is a little too desaturated (colorwise).)

Screenshot (This is also too desaturated.)

Scan of Completed Review (This is the closest to what my eyes see.)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (This isn't too far off - the ink is very dark on absorbent paper.)

Line width (The "I" in "Ink:". 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 291µm. With 290 inks measured, the average line width is 296µm.)

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[Sailor Kenshin]

Aha!  I have a sample of Yama-Guri and a whole bottle of MV Moonstone (which has a lot of green and turquoise components).

 

Like Yama; love Moonstone (there is always a pen inked with it).  Both wash out nicely for sketching, with watercolory effects.

 

People running!  A gray mass?  What could it be?  We will just have to tune in next week.  Thanks once again, @LizEF, for making Tuesdays special.

 

(…..strange noises would definitely include the deep booming demonic voice from my computer last week….)

[yazeh]

Thank you @LizEF and @Klaw for a fun collaborative review.  👍I have to admit I often mixup Pilot inks names, Yama Yama doo 😁

At first it thought it was a marathon, but now grey lava, a Sphinx x and two birds of  prey I assume (a Sphinx flying with two pigeons would be too distracting )

I had fun listenig to the sound scape, a woodpecker, jet engines zooming along and Klaw dipping Smoke's tail in a bottle of Noodler's Baystate Blue 😁).

Thanks for making our Tuesdays so exciting 🙏🙏🙏

 

 

[LizEF]

6 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Aha!  I have a sample of Yama-Guri and a whole bottle of MV Moonstone (which has a lot of green and turquoise components).

 

Like Yama; love Moonstone (there is always a pen inked with it).  Both wash out nicely for sketching, with watercolory effects.

I really like both of these browns.  I was planning to get Moonstone, but now I have to decide between that and Yama-guri!  

 

8 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

People running!  A gray mass?  What could it be?  We will just have to tune in next week.  Thanks once again, @LizEF, for making Tuesdays special.

You're very welcome!

 

8 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

(…..strange noises would definitely include the deep booming demonic voice from my computer last week….)

Install a subwoofer, did you?

[inkstainedruth]

@LizEF Thanks as usual for the review.

This is an ink that I'd never want to be without (I tend to prefer browns that are just slightly sepia-toned, rather than leaning red or orange).  But I started with putting it into a 1990s Pelikan M400 (I wanted it for drawing) and that was just too wet a nib for it (fortunately for me, Edelestein Smoky Quartz is a pretty close color match and worked better in that pen, and I have plenty of other pens that Yama-guri works well in).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[inkstainedruth]

3 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Install a subwoofer, did you?

I'll admit that I really don't understand people who crank the bass up on their car stereos to the point that I can hear -- and sometimes even FEEL -- the reverb in my car with the windows closed.  Or, in some cases in my HOUSE (and we're set pretty far back from the street; I feel sorry for my next door neighbors, whose front yard is maybe 6-8 feet in depth between the sidewalk and their front porch -- especially since they have a couple of foster kids...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

5 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Thank you @LizEF and @Klaw for a fun collaborative review.  👍

You're very welcome!  Klaw is in a sphinx pose and declines to respond...

 

5 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I have to admit I often mixup Pilot inks names, Yama Yama doo 😁

 

6 minutes ago, yazeh said:

At first it thought it was a marathon, but now grey lava, a Sphinx x and two birds of  prey I assume (a Sphinx flying with two pigeons would be too distracting )

Nope, no marathons here.  Definitely not pigeons.  We learn more next week...

 

8 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I had fun listenig to the sound scape, a woodpecker, jet engines zooming along and Klaw dipping Smoke's tail in a bottle of Noodler's Baystate Blue 😁).

Hmm.  Now I have to go back and listen...  Cars, my pen, cars ...  If anyone was dipping anyone else's tail in ink, it would be Smoke doing the dipping - Smoke's a naughty boy, and obsessed (at times) with his own tail, and will happily attack Klaw's tail when it swishes...  I suppose Smoke would dip Klaw's tail in De Atramentis Document White...

 

12 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Thanks for making our Tuesdays so exciting 🙏🙏🙏

You're most welcome!

[LizEF]

9 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

@LizEF Thanks as usual for the review.

You're very welcome!

 

10 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

This is an ink that I'd never want to be without (I tend to prefer browns that are just slightly sepia-toned, rather than leaning red or orange).  But I started with putting it into a 1990s Pelikan M400 (I wanted it for drawing) and that was just too wet a nib for it (fortunately for me, Edelestein Smoky Quartz is a pretty close color match and worked better in that pen, and I have plenty of other pens that Yama-guri works well in).

Yeah, this is a great one.  This shade of brown is overruling my previous liking of more yellow-leaning browns.

 

6 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

I'll admit that I really don't understand people who crank the bass up on their car stereos to the point that I can hear -- and sometimes even FEEL -- the reverb in my car with the windows closed.  Or, in some cases in my HOUSE (and we're set pretty far back from the street; I feel sorry for my next door neighbors, whose front yard is maybe 6-8 feet in depth between the sidewalk and their front porch -- especially since they have a couple of foster kids...).

Oh, I'm one of those people you won't understand, then....   I crank the volume up in the car because that's the one place where I like to sing along, but I can't sing, so I have to turn the volume up loud enough that I can't hear myself.   (I wait until I'm out of the neighborhood if it's before 9am or after 7pm.)

 

At home, I have a set of older Klipsch surround-sound speakers, and there are times that I absolutely love to crank the volume up until I can feel the floor shaking (which is totally from the subwoofer).      I don't turn the bass up on the equalizer, it's just that some songs have a lot of bass and the subwoofer does wonders for those!  Like when the timpani drums come in toward the end of Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila Bacchanale or when the cannons go off in the 1812 Overture (any variation without cannons ought to be blasted by cannons).  Some music just has lots of bass, and said music sometimes needs to vibrate the house!

[inkstainedruth]

21 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Smoke's a naughty boy, and obsessed (at times) with his own tail, and will happily attack Klaw's tail when it swishes...  I suppose Smoke would dip Klaw's tail in De Atramentis Document White...

When we took in the stray tortie and her tortie kitten, the Peke-faced Persian was bedeviled by the kitten because she thought his tail made a lovely toy.   And Troll would look at me as if to say, "MOM!  The kitten is playing with my tail again!  Make it STOP!!!!"  (Ironically, when we first got HIM, he liked to play "obnoxious little brother" to the original tortie and the calico -- but when he tried to do the same with Byron, the Maine Coon, it backfired because (1) Byron was DUMB; and (2) he was so much bigger and taller than Troll he be going "Oh this is a great game!  Now I get to chase you, right?"  And go galumphing along but because his legs were so much longer, he'd end up *landing* on Troll and Troll would have an expression of "No, this is NOT how this game is supposed to be played...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

4 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

When we took in the stray tortie and her tortie kitten, the Peke-faced Persian was bedeviled by the kitten because she thought his tail made a lovely toy.   And Troll would look at me as if to say, "MOM!  The kitten is playing with my tail again!  Make it STOP!!!!"  (Ironically, when we first got HIM, he liked to play "obnoxious little brother" to the original tortie and the calico -- but when he tried to do the same with Byron, the Maine Coon, it backfired because (1) Byron was DUMB; and (2) he was so much bigger and taller than Troll he be going "Oh this is a great game!  Now I get to chase you, right?"  And go galumphing along but because his legs were so much longer, he'd end up *landing* on Troll and Troll would have an expression of "No, this is NOT how this game is supposed to be played...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Sailor Kenshin]

@LizEF, it was some Microsoft thing.  In other words, completely demonic.  😹

[LizEF]

1 minute ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

@LizEF, it was some Microsoft thing.  In other words, completely demonic.  😹

Oh yeah, very demonic.  Let's not even get started down that road.

[yazeh]

4 hours ago, LizEF said:

Oh, I'm one of those people you won't understand, then....   I crank the volume up in the car because that's the one place where I like to sing along, but I can't sing, so I have to turn the volume up loud enough that I can't hear myself.   (I wait until I'm out of the neighborhood if it's before 9am or after 7pm.)

 

At home, I have a set of older Klipsch surround-sound speakers, and there are times that I absolutely love to crank the volume up until I can feel the floor shaking (which is totally from the subwoofer).      I don't turn the bass up on the equalizer, it's just that some songs have a lot of bass and the subwoofer does wonders for those!  Like when the timpani drums come in toward the end of Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila Bacchanale or when the cannons go off in the 1812 Overture (any variation without cannons ought to be blasted by cannons).  Some music just has lots of bass, and said music sometimes needs to vibrate the house!

Now I understand why there's so much zooming about. It's payback from neighbours  

Funny thing, I'm used to listening to music at lower decibels. Maybe, when I was a student, I used to live in apartment with threadbare walls, and my neighbours complained  You should listen to Shostakovich's 15th symphony with your sound system. The first movement is demented. Alternatively Berlioz's  Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale. Though the poor cats will go nuts. There's a Russian version of it on YouTube., There are more musicians on stage than in the audience

 

[LizEF]

2 hours ago, yazeh said:

Now I understand why there's so much zooming about. It's payback from neighbours  

 

2 hours ago, yazeh said:

Funny thing, I'm used to listening to music at lower decibels. Maybe, when I was a student, I used to live in apartment with threadbare walls, and my neighbours complained  You should listen to Shostakovich's 15th symphony with your sound system. The first movement is demented. Alternatively Berlioz's  Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale. Though the poor cats will go nuts.

Yeah, since getting the cats, the Klipsch speakers haven't been used.  I rarely play any music at all at home, let alone at loud volumes.

 

2 hours ago, yazeh said:

There's a Russian version of it on YouTube., There are more musicians on stage than in the audience

I'll do some searches.

[InesF]

With the explanation given it is quite clear what that noise is!    There are three rules when you are in the dungeon:

1) never sleep

2) always take the turn left (heading to the right means: more Dungeon!)

3) if there is a noise, there is danger (if a Dungeon Animal is as big as Klaw - beware!)  

 

Thank you, @LizEF, for reviewing the brown Iroshizuku ink! That's much appreciated, although not being a fan of brown (or blue or black) inks, some brown inks are different (and so are some blue and some black  - ahhm, what am I thinking now? My thoughts go in circles...).  

 

I own only three Iroshizuku inks and all three are quite unique and interesting in their colour range while all three are also quite wet (low surface tension) and have best appearance with EF or F nibs.

Looking forward to next weeks adventure and ink review! 

[LizEF]

6 hours ago, InesF said:

With the explanation given it is quite clear what that noise is!    There are three rules when you are in the dungeon:

1) never sleep

2) always take the turn left (heading to the right means: more Dungeon!)

3) if there is a noise, there is danger (if a Dungeon Animal is as big as Klaw - beware!)  

 

6 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @LizEF, for reviewing the brown Iroshizuku ink! That's much appreciated, although not being a fan of brown (or blue or black) inks, some brown inks are different (and so are some blue and some black  - ahhm, what am I thinking now? My thoughts go in circles...).  

  You're most welcome!  (The world would be dull if there were no exceptions!)

 

6 hours ago, InesF said:

I own only three Iroshizuku inks and all three are quite unique and interesting in their colour range while all three are also quite wet (low surface tension) and have best appearance with EF or F nibs.

That's almost enough to make you think Pilot did that on purpose!

 

6 hours ago, InesF said:

Looking forward to next weeks adventure and ink review! 

Thank you!

[chromantic]

My second favorite brown after Macassar.

[LizEF]

14 minutes ago, chromantic said:

My second favorite brown after Macassar.

Nice.  Macassar looks a little to red for my current tastes in browns, but said tastes seem to continually switch back and forth...

[gmax]

Yama guri is one of my favourites! Thanks for creating and sharing so many reviews 😀

[LizEF]

13 minutes ago, gmax said:

Yama guri is one of my favourites! Thanks for creating and sharing so many reviews 😀

You're very welcome!