Sakana-Machi (Tipsy) - Sailor Bung-Box

[visvamitra]

Sailor is my favourite ink maker. Sadly their most interesting inks are available only in Japan or from internet retailers. There are few japanese shops famous for their wide and interesting range of Sailor inks. One of most well-known is Bung Box. A lot of people were taken by interesting bottles and intriguing colors. It seems however that recently many ink enthusiasts started to shy away from this line since Bung Box inks became much more bitterly expensive than other Sailor inks.

The line consists of quite a few colors. My list is incomplete and most of the names aren't translated well. If you have full list of BB inks and/or could gheklp me with correcting english names, help me sort this out

1. 4B Blue/Black
2. BB Espresso
3. Dandyism
4. Emerald
5. Enshu Black
6. Fuyiyama Blue
7. Hamanako Eel
8. Imperial Purple
9. Ink of the Witch
10. L’Amant
11. Luminous Green
12. Melancholic Gray
13. Mocha
14. Music Black
15. Nostalgia
16. Oamezaki Sunset
17. Omaezaki
18. Omaezaki Blue
19. Orange
20. Pink
21. Ruby
22. Sapphire
23. Silent Night
24. Soleil
25. Tears of Clown

Before I write few words about the ink allow me to start by saying thank you Tinnjapan for sending me samples of different Sailor inks.

Sakana-machi is dryish and boring ink. Nothing special.

Ink splash

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Color range

Tomoe River - Kaweco Sport Classic, eyedropper, B

Leuchtturm1917, Pelikan M405, M nib

Oxford notebook, Waterman Hemisphere, F

[sakayume]

I like how it looks on the cream Tomoe River, which seems to bring out its purple tones. I'm not sure this would be the colour I'd associate with tipsiness though.

[haruka337]

I feel this is the color some people expect when they buy Ink of the Witch. I likes it!

[inkstainedruth]

This is very interesting looking. Am I seeing sheen in some of those images? And yet the droplet/chromatography suggests a teal undertone....

I know that Vanness Pens is stocking some of the Bungbox inks in the US now. Wonder if this is one of them....

Thanks for the review.... And not....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth