Sailor Ishida Bungu Hakodate Twilight Blue

[white_lotus]

This is a series of ink reviews "blues reviews" covering nearly all the blue inks in my collection that I haven't yet reviewed. This ink is one of the custom inks Sailor creates for certain stores in Japan. This ink was created for the Ishida bungu shop on Hokkaido in northern Japan. I'm not sure if these inks are available any longer.

 

Tested on Mohawk via Linen, Hammermill 28lb inkjet, and Tomoe River.

 

[gylyf]

Great review! I love this ink so much. I agree that it looks a bit like Jentle Blue, but it has none of that ink's performance issues (for me at least). And its sheen is lovely.

[visvamitra]

Nice ink.

[white_lotus]

Here is the waterfastness test for this ink. I'd written the text for this test back in July when I did the review but failed to perform the test. Now I have. The paper is Hammermill 28 lb inkjet. The ink lost almost no ink. This one may be very close to waterproof.