Valentine’s Day is on Sunday so this week we’ve been focusing on pink inks! Today’s pink: Nagasawa Kobe #61 Yuki Gosho Cherry Blossom (say that five times fast…). You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink has a little bit of yellow shading.

Writing samples:

Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.

Dry time: 20 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was some feathering but no bleeding.

Cherry Blossom is closest to Thornton’s Highlighter Pink. Click here to see the Kobe inks together, and click here to see the pink inks together.

I used a Sailor Pro Gear Sparkling Pink with a broad nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink had a dry flow.

Overall, this ink can be rather light in the smaller nib sizes, but works pretty well in a broad nib. I do wish it was wetter though.

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