Sailor Kobe # 15 Maiko Green

[visvamitra]

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Kobe (神戸市 Kōbe-shi) is the sixth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture. It is located on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bayand about 30 km (19 mi) west of Osaka. With a population around 1.5 million, the city is part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. Its name comes from "kanbe" (神戸), an archaic title for supporters of the city's Ikuta Shrine. Kobe became one of Japan's 17 designated cities in 1956.

Kobe is famous for its shirines and nioce architecture but among fountain pen and ink afficionados the name Kobe cause increased heart-rate. The city is a home ofNagasawa-Kobe stationery shop that offers incredible lione of more than fifty inks made by Sailor.

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https://kobe-nagasawa.co.jp/

My master - plan is to prepare comparison of full line of Nagasawa-Kobe inks. Not an easy task as they're not the most obtainable inks on the market, but hopefully I'll manage to do it

At the moment Nagasawa-Kobe offers 52 inks:

1. Rokko Green
2. Pier Blue
3. Old Foreigner Ward Sepia
4. Kitano Foreigners Residence Red
5. East Asia Black
6. Kobe Bordeaux
7. Kaikyo Blue
8. Arima Amber
9. Suma Purple
10. Mikage Grey
11. Ikuta Orange
12. Okamoto Pink
13. Nunobiki Emerald
14. Maya Lapis
15. Maiko Green
16. Nada Brown
17. Shioya Blue
18. Sannomiya Panse
19. Minatogawa Lime
20. Motomachi Rouge
21. Taisanji Yellow
22. Shinkaichi Gold
23. Nagata Blue
24. Nakayamate Black
25. Tarumi Apricot
26. Wadamisaki Blue
27. Kounan Maroon
28. Suzuran Green
29. Suma Kaihin Blue
30. Ooji Cherry
31. Seashore Stone Grey
32. Tamon Purple Grey
33. Rikyuu Moon Yellow
34. Sourakuen Tea Green
35. Suwayama Leaf Green
36. Sakaemachi Indigo
37. Minatojima Island Blue
38. Kitanozaka Night Blue
39. Kobe Brick
40. Sumiyoshi Brown
41. Suma Rikyu Rose
42. Rokko Island Sky
43. Gakuen Toshi Fresh Green
44. Sumaura Seaside Blue
45. Hachibuse Silhouette Green
46. Nagisa Museum Grey
47. Aoya Cascade Green
48. Suidousuji Marchais Blue
49. Kitano Olive Green
50. Kyo-machi Legend Blue
51. Kano-cho Midnight
52. Shioya Vintage Sepia

Maiko Green is another intriguing green from Sailor. I like this one a lot but not as much as Souraken Tea Green.

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Drops of ink on kitchen towel

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Software ID

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Color range

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Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

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Leuchturm 1917, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

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Oxford, Hero 5028, stub 1,9

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Edited November 17, 2015 by visvamitra

[Cyber6]

Looking Good!!!!... You will need to make a comparison with #15, #28 and #34.... I have #28, #34 looks very close .. and I am not sure where #15 fits.

 

 

Awesome review as always Vis!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

C.

[Ghost Plane]

Odd. It looks more blue to my eyes than the scan says it is.

[ethernautrix]

This is a pretty green -- dark and... deep-like. Funny, a few years ago, I LOVED Noodler's Zhivago, the green-black or black-green. But I haven't used it for a couple of years, and I wondered why. I realized that I don't particularly care to write in green anymore. Although I do like Iroshizuku Chiku-rin, which is too bright and light for blocks of writing, certainly not for more than one page (which even that seems like too much).

 

And yet I like green inks. Like this one.

 

Just not to write with. Weird.

 

Thanks for another great review!

[visvamitra]

@Ethernautrix - thank you for kind words

 

@Claudia - hero we go:

 

Rokko Green (no.1)

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Maiko Green (no. 15)

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Suzuran Green (no.28)

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Souraken Tea Green (no.34)

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Hashibuse Silhuette Green (no.45)

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Edited November 18, 2015 by visvamitra

[Cyber6]

WOOHOO!!!.. :lol: :lol:

 

Ok.. Rokko will always be a favorite of mine... ..... Maiko is too close and with the right paper and pen will be indistinguishable..

 

I have Suzuran.. (another favorite)... and Sorakan Tea is a clear winner in my books. I believe Suzuran is very close to it. :D

 

I can live without Hashibuse.

 

 

Thanks so much Vis.... This comparison is priceless... ;)

 

 

 

C.

[mehandiratta]

@Ethernautrix - thank you for kind words

 

@Claudia - hero we go:

 

Rokko Green (no.1)

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Maiko Green (no. 15)

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Suzuran Green (no.28)

I'll have to write with it on Leuchtturm. Give me few days

Souraken Tea Green (no.34)

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Hashibuse Silhuette Green (no.45)

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Lovely comparison...

thank you VIS

[Ghost Plane]

Agree - extremely valuable and gives me an excellent option when I can't acquire my first choice. Awesome job you're doing, V

[visvamitra]

I've added Suzuran to comparison. Suzuran and Souraken are very similar.

[Cyber6]

I've added Suzuran to comparison. Suzuran and Souraken are very similar.

 

 

 

Yep... and that's WHY... I went for Suzuran.... From the line of Kobe Greens, the ones I went for: Rokko, Suzuran, and Olive.

 

 

C.

[MCN]

One interesting thing I discovered about this ink is that it is a very close match to the green used on the back of a US dollar bill.

[da vinci]

Great review and comparison thanks

[DrDebG]

Great review! And thank you for the comparisons. This isn't my color of green, though.

[visvamitra]

And here in much "drier" pen: Kaweco AL Sport, broad nib on Clairefontaine paper

Almost different color

(I have four Sport\s by Kaweco. Classic used as eyedropper gives amazing and wet line and writes like a dream while theoretically the same broad nib in AL Sport is dry and bad. I needed to micromesh it. It helped a little but frankly I'm strongly disappointed with this one).