Tag: Sailor
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Retrospective: Friday June 18
🄼🄸🄽🄸 🅁🄴🅅🄸🄴🅆🅂 On Instagram! Bungubox Omaezaki Sunset 🌅 Diamine Autumn Oak 🍂 Pelikan Edelstein Amber More coming (somewhat periodically)… I’m expanding this Retrospectives to include recently inked pens, new acquisitions, music I am listening to and photos I’ve taken. This is in addition to a short reading list, links to minireviews, and what’s new with…
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Ink Review: Shosaikan Syosaikan Seiran Blue
Shosaikan-Syosaikan Seiran Blue is one of two Sailor-made inks from the Shosaikan pen shop based in Tokyo with the other being a green-yellow. They are both in the lovely Sailor Tall or Vase bottles. I visited the store in 2018 on my trip to Japan; it’s a beautiful and spacious store with lots to offer…
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Ink Overview: Sailor Manyo Series II Part 2 (Sakura, Shirakashi, Ukukusa and Ume)
Sailor’s Manyo Series is a two-set series of inks available to the international market, not the Japanese market (there’s enough there already)! The series is based off Man’yōshū, or “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves” which is a set of 4,516 Classical Japanese poems compiled from a variety of source and people in 759. The first…
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My Pen Collection 2021
In early January I wrote about my ink collection and I mentioned that I’d be writing an update on my pens as well. It’s taken a while because there has been a lot of photos taken for this! This is a long, so I’d understand if you skim the stats and my thoughts on the…
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Ink Overview: Sailor Manyo Series II Part 1 (Chigaya, Kakitsubata, Konagi and Nadeshiko)
Sailor’s Manyo Series is a two-set series of inks available to the international market, not the Japanese market (there’s enough there already)! The series is based off Man’yōshū, or “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves” which is a set of 4,516 Classical Japanese poems compiled from a variety of source and people in 759. The first…
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Ink Overview: Sailor Manyo Series I Part 1 (Akebi, Haha, Kikyou and Kuzu)
Sailor’s Manyo Series is a two-set series of inks available to the international market, not the Japanese market (there’s enough there already)! The series is based off Man’yōshū, or “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves” which is a set of 4,516 Classical Japanese poems compiled from a variety of source and people in 759. The first…
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Ink Review: Sailor Onago Iro #02 Komorebi
Sailor Onago Iro #02 Komorebi is a Sailor made ink that is branded under Sailor (rather than a third party stationery store) and is sold from the Sailor Japan website. They don’t ship it internationally. I am told that Onago Iro translates into English as “girl colours” and Komorebi is the sunlight filtering through trees…
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Ink Review: KWZ Sheen Machine 2
KWZ Sheen Machine 2 Sheen Day is the second instalment in KWZ’s approach to super sheening inks. KWZ Sheen Machine (1) was the classic super sheening azure ink but with better writing characteristics and cleaner. KWZ Sheen Machine 2 shares those characteristics but is in now a rich teal inkThank you to Bookbinders Design for…
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Ink Review Pen + Message Cigar
Pen + Message is a small stationery shop tucked away on a back street near Motomachi Station in Kobe, Japan. They sell a lovely small selection of inks, as well as a decent amount of different paper products and high end fountain pens. They’ve also been offering Sailor exclusive inks for a while now and…
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State of the Union 2019: Fountain Pen Ink
In 2017 I wrote my first “State of the Union” where I discussed ink brands, what they had done, and what I wanted them to do in 2018. In 2018 I did the same for 2019. This year’s has been delayed, unfortunately! I really want to get these out before the new year, but sometimes…