{"product_id":"sailor-manyo-nagi","title":"Sailor Manyo Nagi - 4ml Fountain Pen Ink Sample","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHue:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShading:\u003c\/strong\u003e Moderate. You can see it clearly in the swab bar and gently in handwriting, moving from pale sage to deeper green.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSheen:\u003c\/strong\u003e None visible in my swatches. Heavy pools dry with very dark, near-black green rims, but there is no coloured sheen.\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\u003eMedium\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe interesting bit:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\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":"Sailor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57266212077894,"sku":"INK-043","price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/9696\/1862\/files\/SailorManyo-Nagi3.jpg?v=1789856433","url":"https:\/\/thepensmuggler.co.uk\/products\/sailor-manyo-nagi","provider":"The Pen Smuggler","version":"1.0","type":"link"}