Sailor Yurameku Seki — 4ml Fountain Pen Ink Sample

Hue: A soft, dusty mauve-purple that breaks toward slate and grey-green where it pools. Retailer descriptions for Seki vary considerably — some call it a dusty tan, others a greenish-grey. On Tomoe River my swatches read as clearly purple-leaning: a muted lilac-mauve in the writing and swab bar, with cool slate and a hint of green-grey gathering at the edges of the drops. No tan at all on this paper. Worth knowing this ink genuinely does shift by paper, nib and drying time, so your results may differ from mine.

Shading: High. One of the ink's main attractions — the swab bar and drops show strong tonal range from pale lilac through to dark slate, with clear chromatic separation between the purple and the grey-green.

Sheen: None.

Shimmer: None. 

Flow: Dry.

The interesting bit: "Yurameku" translates roughly as flickering or wavering, which is exactly what the line does — these are multi-chromatic inks that show two or three hues at once and keep changing as they dry and settle on the page. Seki is written 夕, the kanji for evening or dusk, and sits in Yurameku I, the first set of nine inks, which took its inspiration from the sky. It's a dye ink with no water resistance — published testing shows it lifts almost completely when wet — so it's one for the journal rather than the address book.

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.