{"product_id":"sailor-manyo-nobiro","title":"Sailor Manyo Nobiru — 4ml Fountain Pen Ink Sample","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHue:\u003c\/strong\u003e A muted olive-moss green. Sailor's own framing and the bottle label point to a fresh, vital green — my swatches read considerably more subdued and yellow-leaning than the label suggests, closer to dried herb than spring growth, and it drops to a very dark charcoal-green where it pools.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShading:\u003c\/strong\u003e High. The writing sample moves through pale yellow-green to deep olive within single letters, and heavier pooling leaves hard-edged near-black halos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSheen:\u003c\/strong\u003e None visible in my swatches on Tomoe River. The dark edging is concentrated ink, not a metallic sheen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShimmer:\u003c\/strong\u003e None.\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\u003eNobiru is Japanese wild garlic — a foraged allium with a garlic smell and a leek-ish taste, long credited with restorative powers. It belongs to a Manyo release built around food rather than flowers: things people actually ate in ancient Japan and wrote about in the Man'yōshū, the \"Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves\". Wild allium turns up there in one gloriously petty poem by Naga no Okimaro, in which the poet demands sea bream with vinegar, fermented paste and pounded hiru, and asks not to be shown the water-plant soup. A thousand-odd years later, this is an ink named after it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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":57266214830406,"sku":"INK-116","price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/9696\/1862\/files\/SailorManyo-Nobiro3.jpg?v=1788649845","url":"https:\/\/thepensmuggler.co.uk\/products\/sailor-manyo-nobiro","provider":"The Pen Smuggler","version":"1.0","type":"link"}