Sailor Rikyu-Cha

[bobje]

Interesting -- grown adults become awestruck children upon opening a bottle of rikyu cha.

[Tas]

Interesting -- grown adults become awestruck children upon opening a bottle of rikyu cha.

 

I know. Lovely isn't it . . . ?

[Ghost Plane]

Wonder if we'd fight in the sandbox if we had to take turns with a bottle.

[nibtip]

You can find this ink and many others on amazon.ca.jp for 9-10$

 

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B01CY9CXK4/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=29EB3XHEYLW0D&coliid=I3SEHIKDSSNEL5&psc=1

 

You may have to order 2-3 ink to make it cost effective bulk purchase.

 

They sell most sailor products at competitive prices from king of pen to ink cartridges

 

They also have the Midori range products.

 

David

 

Regards

 

[Gazcom]

This ink is marvellous. The colour changes a lot from paper to paper and always in really pleasant way: sometimes greener, sometimes reddish, I don't think it's just a matter of drying, but also a matter of how the ink binds to the paper. If you have a sample just try a cromatography to see the grade of complexity of this ink and how much effort sailor put to bring out this particular colour.
​It's fun, it's a particolar hue that you don't see so often and it's still good for taking notes at work (has also a blue waterproof component that it's always appreciated)

Lovely review Lgsoltek! Thanks for this wonderful review!

[Uncial]

I'v just noticed that KWZ Ink's Hunter Green has some similarities to Rikyu-Cha when used on Tomoe River Paper. The KWZ ink has a pretty off putting smell, but is a very, very dark green, but on Tomoe dries to something similar to a darker version of Rikyu-cha.

[BayesianPrior]

I'v just noticed that KWZ Ink's Hunter Green has some similarities to Rikyu-Cha when used on Tomoe River Paper. The KWZ ink has a pretty off putting smell, but is a very, very dark green, but on Tomoe dries to something similar to a darker version of Rikyu-cha.

 

Somewhere someone mixed some KWZI Hunter Green with Herbin Lie de The and ended up not a million miles from Rikyu Cha.

[Blackhorse]

LOL...so once Sailor started putting the ink out there this thread dried up. At least it’s still out there enough so that I found it too. Sweet.

[Tas]

LOL...so once Sailor started putting the ink out there this thread dried up. At least it’s still out there enough so that I found it too. Sweet.

 

""Possession is nothing. But absence has breath" . . . said some wise person somewhere

[Almu]

LOL...so once Sailor started putting the ink out there this thread dried up. At least it’s still out there enough so that I found it too. Sweet.

 

Limited edition and hard-to-get inks are always the best

 

 

This is an ink I wish I had bought earlier, I got my first bottle late '17 and have loved it ever since. It's my favorite ink by far. I even bought two backup bottles before the stupid transition to smaller bottles... Something I'd normally never do.

[displacermoose]

 

Limited edition and hard-to-get inks are always the best

 

 

This is an ink I wish I had bought earlier, I got my first bottle late '17 and have loved it ever since. It's my favorite ink by far. I even bought two backup bottles before the stupid transition to smaller bottles... Something I'd normally never do.

I only bought one backup bottle, but yes. I don't buy backup bottles because I have a lot of really great ink. But this one is special.

[Blackhorse]

Jet has the 20 ml bottles for $15. Pen Chalet has the 50 ml bottles for $16. Guess which one I bought three of!

[Intensity]

Cigar and rikyu-cha are both very paper-dependent.

I've tried them on two types of paper, and they almost look like totally different ink:

(posting with my cellphone, not sure if the link works:P)

 

I keep reading about this ink being a chameleon on different papers, and obviously the above is a very extreme example, but I'm not at all seeing much difference with my own bottle (50ml, bought last year) on fountain pen-friendly paper. When using the same pen, it looks more or less the same on 7 different paper types I've used it on so far: Rhodia #16 dot pad, Clairefontaine standard coated notebooks (french-ruled and blank), Fabriano Bioprima ivory paper, random Rex&Molly journal, no-name notebook, crappy copy paper, and even Tomoe River!! Rikyu-Cha always looks more dark green with an olive tint going down on the page, and then very rapidly morphs to its final hue of brownish-green. Where the sheen is more prominent, there's a more brown color shift. Thus the most absorbent copy paper is more green, and fountain-pen friendly paper is a bit more brown for the final hue. Basically the difference I'm seeing I can also observe with other inks--more noticeable with inks that sheen--which also look a bit different on each paper type or with different nib / line saturation. Tomoe River shows it slightly more on the green-brown side, more like cheap copy paper. I've yet to see it look more brown than green on anything. I see very brown looking samples in google image search, but my bottle doesn't give me that at all. I wonder if there's some batch variation...

 

What am I missing about this ink that I can't get the variation a lot of people talk about? I think I expected more out of this ink, based on user feedback, and it's been a bit of a disappointment

Edited February 4, 2019 by Intensity

[lgsoltek]

 

I keep reading about this ink being a chameleon on different papers, and obviously the above is a very extreme example, but I'm not at all seeing much difference with my own bottle (50ml, bought last year) on fountain pen-friendly paper. When using the same pen, it looks more or less the same on 7 different paper types I've used it on so far: Rhodia #16 dot pad, Clairefontaine standard coated notebooks (french-ruled and blank), Fabriano Bioprima ivory paper, random Rex&Molly journal, no-name notebook, crappy copy paper, and even Tomoe River!! Rikyu-Cha always looks more dark green with an olive tint going down on the page, and then very rapidly morphs to its final hue of brownish-green. Where the sheen is more prominent, there's a more brown color shift. Thus the most absorbent copy paper is more green, and fountain-pen friendly paper is a bit more brown for the final hue. Basically the difference I'm seeing I can also observe with other inks--more noticeable with inks that sheen--which also look a bit different on each paper type or with different nib / line saturation. Tomoe River shows it slightly more on the green-brown side, more like cheap copy paper. I've yet to see it look more brown than green on anything. I see very brown looking samples in google image search, but my bottle doesn't give me that at all. I wonder if there's some batch variation...

 

What am I missing about this ink that I can't get the variation a lot of people talk about? I think I expected more out of this ink, based on user feedback, and it's been a bit of a disappointment

 

 

That's what I get from Rikyu-cha as well.

[KaB]

Same here. Though I don't use so many types of paper. Just love the colour.

[A Smug Dill]

Maybe not quite as dramatically different as in some of the photos in this thread (or elsewhere on the web), but the 'chameleon' inks Sailor Shikiori rikyu-cha and Diamine Salamander both present very differently on different papers for me, including two samples of nominally the same product (bought several years apart, so ageing of the paper is a factor, but most likely the manufacturers have changed suppliers of materials in the meantime):

 

 

[Intensity]

Hm to me that seems more like paper difference itself. Not sure what happened with those two different batches of the booq.pad. I.e. other inks can also look different on different paper. Coated smooth lavender-white Clairefontaine paper vs. uncoated and more grainy creamy Fabriano Bioprima vs. Tomoe River 52gcm, for example. Those 3 make most of my inks look quite different from one paper to another, sometimes more dramatically, sometimes less. Rikyu Cha doesn't stand out in that regard in my experience.

 

If I could get an ink that looks and behaves like the bottom sample in this post, I'd be VERY happy:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/307986-sailor-rikyu-cha/page-2?do=findComment&comment=3623278

 

Love everything about that look.

Edited February 11, 2019 by Intensity

[A Smug Dill]

If I could get an ink that looks and behaves like the bottom sample in this post, I'd be VERY happy:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/307986-sailor-rikyu-cha/page-2?do=findComment&comment=3623278

 

Love everything about that look.

That looks almost like... Sailor Shikiori yamadori, if perhaps a little lighter in colour.

[Intensity]

Its much more olive, and yet in the pooled up areas its more teal. That would be quite an ink: olive-ish gray-ish green that shades to teal and also sheens like that. Definitely my dream ink. Someone needs to invent it, Sailor or Colorverse

Edited February 11, 2019 by Intensity

[minddance]

Right up my alley. Works in many pens in my collection.