Sailor Manyo Nagi - 4ml Fountain Pen Ink Sample

Hue: A muted, dusty grey-green with a teal lean. Retailer descriptions vary widely, from "turquoise" to "blue-purple". The blue-purple refers to the plant's flowers rather than the ink. In my swatches there is no purple or blue-purple at all. It reads as a soft sage-teal in writing and deepens to a dark forest green where it pools.

Shading: Moderate. You can see it clearly in the swab bar and gently in handwriting, moving from pale sage to deeper green.

Sheen: None visible in my swatches. Heavy pools dry with very dark, near-black green rims, but there is no coloured sheen.

Shimmer: None.

Flow: Medium

The interesting bit: Manyo takes its name from the Manyoshu, Japan's oldest poetry anthology, which holds 4,516 poems. This ink comes from a later Manyo release themed around foods named in those poems. Nagi is a paddy-field plant that flowers small and blue-purple in late summer, and its leaves and stems were eaten. It has a smaller sibling in the range, Konagi ("little nagi"), a much bluer ink.

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.