Fuji-Musume Sailor Jentle Ink (2016)

[visvamitra]

In 1911, Mr. Kyugoro Sakata, an engineer from Hiroshima in Japan, was introduced to the fountain pen. Mr. Sakata was so intrigued by the design and function of the pen he decided to begin a company to craft the finest writing instruments in the world. In honor of his British friend, he chose to name the company Sailor Pen.

The Sailor Pen Company has maintained this heritage of quality and technical perfection over the years. Apart from offering very well made pens, the company has employed an ink master - pure genius who's managed to create greates fountain pen inks ever (it's my opinion not validated by research but shared by many of us). I would guess that during the years Sailor created approximately 600-800 inks (most of them under other names).

One of internatioonally available line of Sailor inks is Sailor Jentle line. At the moment we have two of them. The new one reintroduces colors that were missed by hundreds of geeks. I'vwe bought full line of new Jentle inks and I'll review them all in following weeks. The inks are:

1. Chu-shu
   
2. Fuji-musume
   
3. Irori
   
4. Kin-mokusei
   
5. Rikyu-cha
   
6. Sakura-mori
   
7. Waka-uguisu
   
8. Yuki-akari
   

Today I'll say few words about the tink I enjot due to its freshness

Fuji-musume

Fuji-musume means ("Wisteria Maiden"), is a famous classical dance out of the Kabuki theater in Japan. It was first performed in 1826 as one of a set of five dances. The figure of the wisteria maiden first came from the town of Otsu on the shores of Lake Biwa, where folk art called Otsu-e were sold as souvenirs. The wisteria maiden was the most famous of them.

Sailor Fuji-musume is a light pastel violet that I strongly dislike. Maybe it's not an affront to the eyes but this color wasn't made for me. In terms of wrtiting performance Fuji-musume won't disappoint almost anyone unless water resistance is of importance for you. In this case you won't be pleased. After a while in water the text simply disappears. It was very easy to clean from TWSBI.

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Color ID

Color range

Tomoe River, Kaweco AL Sport, broad nib

Leuchtturm1917, Kaweco AL Sport, broad nib

Kokuyo Campus Myo, TWSBI 580, stub 1,1

No-name notebook, TWSBI 580, stub 1,1

Midori MD, Kaweco Sport, B

Oxford Optic, Twsbi 580, stub 1,1

Water resistance

Edited November 22, 2016 by visvamitra

[lgsoltek]

Half of the new 4 Seasons inks are pastel and pale colours like this. Meh.

 

And I can't wait to see how Yuki-akari traumatises you, Vis. LOL

Edited November 22, 2016 by Lgsoltek

[visvamitra]

Ah, yes. Yuki-akari, lovely turquoise?

 

 

I hate it.

[lgsoltek]

Ah, yes. Yuki-akari, lovely turquoise?

 

 

I hate it.

Try mixing some gold and silver pearlescent pigments!

Edited November 22, 2016 by Lgsoltek

[visvamitra]

Try mixing some gold and silver pearlescent pigments!

 

Good one I've already done it to enjoy glittering turquoise. It looks very soothing.

[Pensei]

I appreciate the way you give a full quality review to inks you "strongly dislike"! I am very devoted to violet, so I like this one.

[Old_Inkyhand]

I think I've just found Visvamitra's nightmare.

http://www.drawingnow.com/file/videos/image/how-to-draw-flitter-from-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic.jpg

(from drawingnow.com)

[lgsoltek]

I think I've just found Visvamitra's nightmare.

http://www.drawingnow.com/file/videos/image/how-to-draw-flitter-from-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic.jpg

(from drawingnow.com)

ROFL!!!

[visvamitra]

Jesus Christ, this is INHUMAN!

[EdeIstein88]

LOL

[zchen]

Thanks for the review, but yikes I'd rather use Herbin's Violette Pensee if I'm going to use that shade.

[Ghost Plane]

I think I've just found Visvamitra's nightmare.

http://www.drawingnow.com/file/videos/image/how-to-draw-flitter-from-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic.jpg

(from drawingnow.com)

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[inkstainedruth]

Thanks, as always, for the review.

This is one that appears to be better in a broader nib (I had the same issue with, IIRC, Organics Studio Potassium). A finer nib just didn't put enough ink down on the page to be legible.

This is clearly another ink I can pass on -- especially since it seems to have zero water resistance. Kinda too bad, because I think it's a pretty color.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth