Yazeh Ink Reviews

  Ostrich Evening Mist   Ink Review # 248 Originally posted on FPN: May 30, 2026   --- 🧾  Description   Ink:  Evening Mist Series:   24 SOLAR TERMS Brand:  Ostrich inks Country:  China Bottles:  10ml and 30ml from AliExpress or similar outlets.  Pens Used:  Pilot Kakuno EF, Kaweco (EF/F/M/B/BB, stub 1.1, 1.9), Hongdian Blade, Noodler’s Ahab with FPR flex.   Ostrich Evening mist is a murky green named after the mournful poem  Yulin Ling  by Liu Yong.    Liu Yong —  Yulin Ling: Cold Cicadas Cry Bitterly Cold cicadas cry mournfully. Facing the roadside pavilion at dusk, the sudden rain has just stopped. Outside the capital gate, our farewell wine has no joy. We linger, unwilling to part, but the orchid boat urges departure. Hand in hand, we gaze through tearful eyes, choked with grief, unable to speak. Thinking of your going, going — a thousand miles of misty waves; evening mist  lies ...

  Octopus Write & Draw Green Eagle   Ink Review # 247 Originally posted on FPN: May 23, 2026   --- 🧾  Description   Ink:  Green Eagle Brand:  Octopus Write & Draw Country:  Germany Bottle size:  50 ml Pens Used:  Osmiroid Copperplate EEF flex, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ stub 1.1)   Octopus Write & Draw inks are pigment inks, waterproof and lightfast. There are 48 of them in all.    This is the last of the 4 greens by Octopus. I prefer this to Green Panda: It has much better lubrication and the flow is average, and the colour is less bright.    My sample was old and past the two-year expiry date. After soaking and flushing the pen, an unpleasant-looking blob of ink fell into the sink. I contacted Octopus to ask whether this was normal. They explained that the issue was likely related to the preservative rather than the ink itself, and that they had since changed that component. They even offered to exchange...

  Taccia Hokusai-fukakihanada   Ink Review # 246 Originally posted on FPN:  May 20, 2026 --- 🧾  Description   Ink:  Fukaki-hanada  Brand:  Taccia  Ukiyo-e  series.  Availability:   40 ml bottles. Country:  Japan Pens Used:  Pilot Kakuno EF, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ stub 1.1), Karas Customs with a FPnibs flex with ebonite feed.    What’s in a name?    Ukiyo-e  art was a genre of woodblock printing and painting that flourished in Japan in the Edo period (1603–1868).    This ink is inspired by the great Japanese printmaker Hokusai (1760–1849), specifically the gorgeous blue of  Kajikazawa in Kai Province  one of his Thirty -six Views of Mount Fuji  print s .  The name Fukaki-hanada translates roughly to deep hanada, with fukaki meaning deep and hanada referring to a traditional Japanese indigo-blue color name.    While the colour is not my type, after reviewin...