{"product_id":"nagasawa-kobe-ink-monogatari-sumiyoshi-brown-4ml-fountain-pen-ink-sample","title":"Nagasawa Kobe Ink Monogatari Sumiyoshi Brown - 4ml Fountain Pen Ink Sample","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHue:\u003c\/strong\u003e A dark, cool espresso brown. My swatches broadly match the official description but run cooler and greyer than you might expect. The dip-pen line reads as a greyed taupe-brown, handwriting sits close to brown-black, and heavy pools take on a dark slate, almost blue-black undertone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShading:\u003c\/strong\u003e Low. There’s some light-to-dark variation in wider lines, but it’s subtle in everyday writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSheen: \u003c\/strong\u003eMinimal. A faint bronze-brown sheen appears at the edges of heavy pools only, so don’t expect it in normal writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShimmer: \u003c\/strong\u003eNone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlow:\u003c\/strong\u003e Medium\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe interesting bit:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sumiyoshi is a leafy district of Kobe where the novelist Junichiro Tanizaki lived. His former home, Ishōan, still stands there, and it’s where he wrote The Makioka Sisters. Nagasawa chose a traditional tea-brown to honour him, described in English as the colour of the writer’s favourite tea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a hand-decanted 4ml sample vial from my own bottle.\u003cbr\u003ePhotos are my own swatches on Tomoe River Paper.\u003cbr\u003eI’m a collector and I’m always happy to talk ink, so please message me if you have any questions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kobe \/ Nagasawa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57410952298822,"sku":null,"price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/9696\/1862\/files\/Kobesumiyoshibrown3.jpg?v=1791753946","url":"https:\/\/thepensmuggler.co.uk\/products\/nagasawa-kobe-ink-monogatari-sumiyoshi-brown-4ml-fountain-pen-ink-sample","provider":"The Pen Smuggler","version":"1.0","type":"link"}