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Hunting for Japanese Exclusive Inks: Part 4, Nagoya
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2024
- After visiting Tokyo, I headed down to Nagoya, where I had a couple of leads on some store-exclusive inks. I quickly found 25 Sailor store exclusive inks in vase bottles at the Penland Cafe, and somehow, left the city with only one bottle.
While in Tokyo, searching online for store exclusive inks, I ran across the Mitasanshodo inks in their gorgeous cut-glass bottles. I was hoping that I'd be able to find them in Tokyo, but they were only available at a Mita-Sanshodo shop about a two hour train ride north of the city (maybe next time), so I ordered two bottles from their Rakuten shop.
As usual, in this video, I swatch the inks and provide some modest writing samples.
I absolutely love dark almost black inks that show its true colors once water is added..perfect for art sketches.
Just wanted to say that I love the videos and I'm currently following your advent calendar videos.
I had a question. But I forgot.
Thanks! I'm planning on going back to Japan in a few months, so maybe I can extend this series a bit. Enjoy Inkvent in the meantime :-)
Those Mita-Sanshodo inks are GORGEOUS. The sumi inks have so much art potential. Thanks for taking us on this trip.
My pleasure 🙂
Sumi inks are traditionally used in calligraphy and painting
I can't wait for the next one!
Great video and gorgeous inks.
Thanks! I'm really happy with these purple inks 😀
Saw the Sumi and Hana inks in Taiwan. I will definitely pick up a bottle next time I visit Japan. Nice video
These are probably my favorite inks from Japan... really beautiful and wonderful to write with. If you can find them, I'd definitely recommend them 🙂
My goodness Matthew! Some of those shots you took were stunning! I really want to go to Japan after seeing your videos!
Thanks Dustin :-)
I'm heading to Tokyo and Osaka at the end of the summer and have really been enjoying this series of videos! Can't wait to check out some of the shops you went to.
Ahh, glad that this series will be useful for you! I wish I were going back to Japan at the end of the summer 🙂
Impressed with your travels. Nakasendo must have been a beautiful slice of history. It’s also fun to do a bit of exploring and find out of the way places like pen shops in Japan. That’s how you can find good food along the way and see the real country. Aloha
I agree... a big part of the fun of hunting for inks is all of the rest of the strange and beautiful stuff that I find along the way that I'd otherwise miss. The Nakasendo was very beautiful, with brass bells stationed every kilometer or so along the trail for me to ring to scare off bears. Or, as a dinner bell, I guess.
@@thewetpen Happy no bears were fed while you were there. I look forward to the rest of your pen journey. I've been to Japan over a dozen times, but never made it to Nagoya or Nakansendo. (I had plans for the latter, but a volcano erupting not too far away made me cancel my reservations that time). I have to go back and check on those bears.
I have been meaning to order some ink from Mitasanshodo for a while now but I keep forgetting. Thanks for the reminder!
They have some really nice colors, and both of these inks are super smooth and a joy to write with.
When do you think you will release the Osaka video? My husband is there, now and for a couple more days, and I’m hoping to send him hunting for some!
In about 3 hours :-)
Another well made video ❤
Whoa. That last ink was amazing!
It is pretty amazing, isn't it? I love that bottle of ink :-)
Nice video
Thanks!
I am not a fan of light blue ink. I am sure there were many other choices. I really like the vase bottles. Wish these bottles were available here.
Yes, we're in the same boat there. It seems that the vase bottles are being replaced by the new rectangular bottle as old stock is depleted... so the vase bottles will probably not even be available in Japan, soon.
How did you travel with ink? Did you ship it back, or did you just put it into luggage?
EDIT: Forgot to add, love the series!
Thanks! I just put the ink in my luggage. These glass ink bottles are so heavy and small that there's not much chance of breaking, and I tightened the caps and loaded the bottles into heavy-duty ziplock bags before my flight home. The upside was that I didn't have to pay for shipping... the downside was that I had to carry all of that heavy glass and liquid... something like 15 pounds worth, by the end of the trip 🙂
@@thewetpen it was a good tip to know since locally I don't have many ink options, and though customs/security would make a problem when I flew for the first time a month ago. Now I have more reasons to spend money on too much ink. Thanks again and keep up the great work
And the sumi ink is licorice-scented, I'm sure.
🙂 It is scented! I don't know what it smells like, though. It's a little minty.
@@thewetpen How's that for a lame joke! The last time I took a whiff of a Japanese (Sailor) ink I gave myself a headache from the phenol...
Did you face any fading issues with the scented inks?
I haven't owned them long enough to really be able to tell. I think that I first opened these bottles a month ago. But I don't think that I've encountered any dye-based ink that doesn't have fading issues in sunlight. Well, not many, anyway.
@@thewetpen fading under normal circumstances
Thanks, this too was of much help
How do I go about ordering ink from mitasanshodo?
item.rakuten.co.jp/mita-club/c/0000000797/ and use Chrome to auto translate.
Any chance you can do a video on how you ordered from them? It’s asking me to check out, but hasn’t calculated for shipping yet? So confused.
@@TheDormousesDesk Before anything else, you might want to try this instead of the Rakuten website: www.mitaclub.co.jp/ It's in Japanese, but use Chrome to translate if you don't read Japanese rather than going to the English website (which is all sold out). The Japanese site has all kinds of other cool stuff, too... I wish that I had found it when I ordered... they have special inks and RUBBER STAMPS with these bottles on them! And for checkout, it's a Shopify site, so you can checkout using ShopPay or PayPal, etc. Might be easier... but I haven't done it myself.
When I ordered, I just fumbled through it and hoped for the best, so I don't remember all of the details very well. But if you have any trouble with this checkout, let me know and I'll see what I can do 🙂
Any luck?
@@thewetpen I've tried both sites with no luck.
yummy!
They used to sell Mita Sanshodo inks in the Gunma antenna shop near Ginza Six but the shop closed in 2022. I got the Olive one in the Tokyo Woman’s Stationery Expo.
The bottles are amazing, but I'm more and more impressed with the inks every time that I use them 🙂
@@thewetpen Luckily for me, a Japanese stationery shop here in Singapore has a good relationship with Mita Sanshodo and they import their products, both Sumi and Hana inks and some of their pens. They even have the Olive one which the Mita Sanshodo staff at the expo told me was exclusive in their Gunma shop. Oh well, they gave me a bottle of olive oil at the expo as well so…