Tag Kyoto Branch / Kyoto Plant Dye Research Institute Kyoshiki Ink Series

[white_lotus]

OK now, when will they get more? This can't be a one-off experiment.

[Cyber6]

I used the links in this thread. However, I don't know if they are still available, or if they are sold out.

 

From this seller on Rakuten: http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/office-japan/

 

 

Thanks, I went to that link... but since I did not see them... I assume I was in the wrong place.

 

 

Sold out??.. Quelle surprise...

[AndyYNWA]

At least the box is in one piece...

 

http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv27/AndyYNWA/Misc/c0fb193c-bb5e-40e5-b658-7eb4167875ce_zpsdvxwmb1d.jpg

[AndyYNWA]

Looking promising...

 

http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv27/AndyYNWA/Misc/C80C399A-C0F5-4F09-A91B-DF67CA58B95F_zpsbgrk5zun.jpg

[AndyYNWA]

No leaking at all. The caps were tightly screwed on. Same type of caps as Sailor.

 

http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv27/AndyYNWA/Misc/CD5338F7-6357-4243-887B-14D552B114C8_zpsjxzsumoe.jpg

[AndyYNWA]

First quick testing.

Picture shot with my iPhone, hence the colours are not 100% accurate.

 

http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv27/AndyYNWA/Misc/47FFC81D-96C5-4E61-AC6E-DD357A42F8D2_zpsddiuga8m.jpg

 

I'm not super impressed...

 

Both inks, especially aonibi, are quite "watery".

 

Kyo-iro "soft snow of Ohara" is a quite greyish purple with faily low saturation.

Kyo no oto "aonibi" has a nice blue-black colour and shades well, but it has quite a lot of spread. Compared to other inks I have used in the same pen, the lines are about half size wider.

 

I will have to give both inks a couple of more days before I give my final verdict.

Edited March 3, 2016 by AndyYNWA

[migo984]

I still think the 01 nureba-iro (black) is the best of the 10. It's sumptuous. I'd love to get another bottle.

[Sakura FP Gallery]

I received the inks for my shop !

For all who is interested they are not plant (vegetal) based inks. The Dye technic organization who made these inks has a 300 year reputation making plant dyeing inks for textiles in a very traditional way. But these fountain pen inks are modern inks developed by the company. Perhaps one day they will make plant dye inks for fountain pens in a limited edition.

[white_lotus]

This is excellent news. Even modern fountain pen inks are welcome.

[haruka337]

First quick testing.

Picture shot with my iPhone, hence the colours are not 100% accurate.

 

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I'm not super impressed...

 

Both inks, especially aonibi, are quite "watery".

 

Kyo-iro "soft snow of Ohara" is a quite greyish purple with faily low saturation.

Kyo no oto "aonibi" has a nice blue-black colour and shades well, but it has quite a lot of spread. Compared to other inks I have used in the same pen, the lines are about half size wider.

 

I will have to give both inks a couple of more days before I give my final verdict.

 

Thank you, Andy! This was most helpful.

[white_lotus]

Based on what AndyYNWA and haruka337 say, tell them more dye. They should compare their inks against inks at KN, BB, etc.

[haruka337]

As well you know: apples and oranges.

[migo984]

Not all Japanese inks are the same & they're not supposed to be like Sailor inks. It's refreshing to have new inks that are not super-saturated for a change.

I love the softness of them & personally enjoy using them a lot. The black has a wonderful copper sheen.

[ENewton]

I am eagerly awaiting my bottle of Soft Snows of Ohara and also appreciate having some less saturated inks, because I like shading. Granted that one can water down a more saturated ink, I have not found the results as interesting as using an ink formulated with shading in mind.

[25_15_3]

I wonder when they will restock the sold out items. I'd be interested in buying a bottle of stone road of gion, moonlight of higashiyama, and soft snow of ohara.

[Aelie]

I had been looking for a green ink, so I ordered Kyo no oto kokeiro this evening.

 

All Kyo-no-iro ink names refer to physical locations in Kyoto, and I really enjoyed my visits to that city. So I wanted to see what location kokeiro refers to. I decided to google the name, and the second image that popped up was that of the green moss garden at Saiho-ji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto. The ink name then made a lot of sense, as I found out that the word koke (苔) means moss - and kokeiro is a green ink.

 

So this ink will almost be like a souvenir from Kyoto for me. When they get 'stone road of Gion' back in stock, I might order that too.

[sakayume]

I'm curious how different kokeiro and yamabukiiro actually are? The writing samples used for both actually look like the exact same picture.

 

I'm hoping Gion no ishidatami and higashiyama no tsukikage are restocked soon.

 

I actually like the looks of aonibi and 'soft snows of ohara' from the pictures posted here, but then I like soft, not so saturated inks a lot (like KN's mycena pura!). And a wet ink that makes pens write wider is always a plus in my book.

Edited April 4, 2016 by candide

[sakayume]

 

I'm hoping Gion no ishidatami and higashiyama no tsukikage are restocked soon.

 

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Stock seems to have been replenished so I've just ordered these two, plus kokeiro and soft snows of ohara. I'm curious how these inks compare with Sailor and Iroshizuku.

[AndyYNWA]

A second try of Kyo-no-oto Aonibi. It's really watery...

I wouldn't call it wet in a similar way as other inks I have used, just more watery.

 

Both the text in Kobe #37 and the text in Aonibi are written with the exact same pen. The spread is noticable.

 

Not much sheen, not even on this Tomoe River. Just a very descrete burgundy halo around the wettest parts of the letters.

 

http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv27/AndyYNWA/Misc/89AA7402-921E-4445-9914-5D6F3EB10147_zps0opqf0qr.jpg

[ENewton]

 

I'm hoping Gion no ishidatami and higashiyama no tsukikage are restocked soon.

 

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Stock seems to have been replenished so I've just ordered these two, plus kokeiro and soft snows of ohara. I'm curious how these inks compare with Sailor and Iroshizuku.

 

I've been using Soft Snows of Ohara in a Pilot Prera F, which is not the best context in which to assess shading, bleed-through, or any number of qualities relevant to an ink review. However, I will say that it lays down a dark line, even with such a fine point. (I feared it might not.) It is conservative enough to use in a professional setting, so not a "fun" ink, but an interesting enough shade--of indigo?--that I have not seen any another closely resembling it. I have never used Sailor inks, but I do use Iroshizuku, and Soft Snows of Ohara looks the way I imagine Shin-kai might if one inked up a pen from which Murasaki Shikibu had been mostly but not entirely flushed. I concur that it is a wet ink, with a feel much like that of the four or five Iroshizuku inks I have tried.