Nagasawa Kobe #22 Monogatari Shinkaichi Gold
I bought this weird ink from Nagasawa Kobe at a DC Pen Super Show a few years back, and it lived in this same pen for lots of refills. The broad nib on the Kilk pen goes through ink pretty quickly, and it seemed like it needed a refill almost every time I went to write some part of a review for this ink. I guess I liked it! (Though there was some evaporation at play, too, I think.)
As I say in the written review below, “gold” is the right word for this, I think. It’s a strange color. In the bottle it looks like it’ll be a chartreuse, but it’s definitely not. It’s not green, yellow, or brown, but it is also a little bit of all of those things.
I love the Kobe inks (and pretty much all of the inks that Sailor makes), but they’re expensive and hard to get here in the USA unless you can find them at a pen show like DC or San Francisco where Nagasawa is attending. Take a look at their sheet of ink colors and pick your favorites before you see them at a show so you’ll be ready to snap them up before everyone else does. They go fast, sometimes!
This Nebula Casual Note paper is great. Shading, sheen, and colors are always well-represented on this paper.
The copy paper shows some bleeding and such, but not all that much, and this is a fairly wet broad nib and the paper is weak sauce, so that’s actually not too bad. It does spread a bit, though.
This Air Mail paper is so thin. You can see the grey desk mat underneath. It does a really good job of bringing out the yellowish tones and shading in this ink, though.
The next two papers are from my currently inked journals. The wheat straw paper (top) and Tomoe River (bottom) both show different features of this ink, but it looks good on both.
At last: It’s time for some color comparisons! I found some things that are sort of close, but no exact matches. (Don’t forget to click the images to enbiggen them.)
