Made for the San Fransisco Pen Show but curiously exclusive to Straits Pens in Singapore this ink is both very disappointing but also very nice and quite interesting. The ink tries to include red in a blue ink without becoming purple. It's moderately successful.
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These are by no means all my orange inks, but I think they are a pretty decent and interesting set of ten. I have three Sailor oranges, as well as some other well regarded inks. These are swatched and written with a glass dip pen. I have not inked these for this comparison. The inks are: Bookbinder's Online Everglades Ratsnake, Robert Oster Orange, Diamine Marigold, Robert Oster Peach, Sailor Kobe #25 Tarumi Apricot, Bungubox Fresh Orange Mandarin/Tangarine (among other names), Sailor Apricot, Sailor Kin-Mokusei, Noodler's Apache Sunset, and Caran d'Ache Saffron.
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Kyo-Iro Moonlight of Higashiyama was one of the inks from the Kyo-Iro and Kyo-no-oto series that I was most looking forward to trying. Unfortunately, the ink has been a slight disappointment; in the swatch form it's quite a great looking colour but it just didn't perform well enough in the pen. I purchased this ink from Sakura Fountain Pen Gallery and others in the series also from Takedajimuki
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I was given a sample of this ink earlier in the year but it wasn't until I eventually swatched it on Tomoe River that I decided to grab a bottle; I've never seen an ink sheen quite like this one. As a Nagasawa Sailor-made exclusive, the ink isn't the cheapest to acquire from outside of Japan (and even within Japan there are restrictions on how many you can buy at a time). Before I continue, yes I am aware of the spelling error throughout the written review. I thought Kitanozoka sounded more Greek than Japanese but I didn't do my research enough and instead relied on an incorrect spelling that I read online! Oops.
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