I bought one of the acclaimed Pilot Iroshizuku inks last week. It's also the first ink I've bought at a store in-person. Here it is on my desk at work. I've been using it in a notebook that doesn't really show off any nice fountain pen qualities, but even so, I've been enjoying this ink. The purple color looks great, and it dries quickly, which is nice for a lefty.
Seems like every other fountain pen user besides me has used these before; do you have any favorite colors?
Woah woah,what is that sweet KB and trakball?
All I can see is how clean the desk and equipment are and how stained it would be if I was allowed to have that ink nearby 😅
I like the name. Cool call-out to the classic author.
For images of Iroshizuku Murasaki-Shikibu on paper:
https://mountainofink.com/blog/pilot-iroshizuku-murasaki-shikibu
As a lefty you say? I have just been rocking the G6 8 pack because I thought the only way I could get into fountain pens is to use a crazy apparatus that makes me drag it like a righty...
I have the Yama-Budo, which is red with a gold sheen. It’s so pretty. I used it for my D&D journals which were my weekly chance to hand-write a bunch.
I have a bottle of this I bought back in 2017 or so, I still have 1/3 of it left. One of my favorite inks.
Pilot Iroshizuku...every other fountain pen user besides me has used these before; do you have any favorite colors
I have a few, but I think that the only one that I've inked a pen up with thus far is the shading yellow-orange-red Iroshizuku Yu-Yake.
I like it---it's on a stub nib pen---but I haven't used similar yellow-orange-red inks from other ink manufacturers, like Noodler's Southwest Sunset, and I imagine that in practice, they're probably pretty similar to Pilot's ink.
The color looks so rich! What is the finish like?
My favorite is the chestnut brown Yama-guri.
Beautiful ink!
I have the black and blue ones, and they are probably my favorite writers. Smooth and bold. Beautiful
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