Sailor Manyo Fuji — 4ml Fountain Pen Ink Sample
Sailor Manyo Fuji — 4ml Fountain Pen Ink Sample
Details
Hue: A soft periwinkle-violet that drops to a dusky slate blue where it pools. Sailor label it a dual-shading ink and reviewers commonly mention pink or peach tones in the mix — I don't see those in my swatches. Mine run cooler and greyer than the bottle label suggests, purple through to blue-grey with no warmth in it.
Shading: High, and the reason to buy it. Writing moves from pale grey-violet in thin strokes to a much brighter purple where ink collects, with dark slate-blue banding at the edges of anything heavier.
Sheen: None.
Shimmer: None.
Flow: Medium.
The interesting bit: Fuji here is 藤, wisteria — not 富士, the mountain. Different word, different kanji, and the bottle label makes it plain with the drooping flower racemes printed across it. Wisteria is one of the flowers that recurs through the Man'yōshū, the "Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves", which is where the whole Manyo line takes its name. Fuji arrived as one of four dual-shading inks Sailor added to the range, built to split into two tones as the ink pools rather than to sit flat on the page.
This is a hand-decanted 4ml sample vial from my own bottle.
Photos are my own swatches on Tomoe River Paper.
I'm a collector and I'm always happy to talk ink, so please message me if you have any questions.
Postage
Royal Mail or Evri, your choice at checkout, from £1.90. Free over £20. Dispatched within 2 working days. UK only for now.
Returns
Change your mind within 14 days and I'll refund you, including standard outbound postage. Return postage is yours unless something's wrong. Opened vials can only be refunded in part. Full details in my refund policy.
What you're getting
A 4ml vial, hand-decanted by me from my own bottle. Swatch photos are mine, on Tomoe River paper. Colours vary with paper, nib and screen, so treat them as a good guide rather than an exact match.