Yazeh Ink Reviews

  Platinum Carbon Black   Ink Review # 254   --- 🧾  Description   Ink:   Carbon Black Brand:  Platinum Country:  Japan Pens Used:  Platinum Preppy EF, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/stub 1.1), Osmiroid Copperplate semi-flex nib.  Available:  Platinum Cartridges and 60 ml bottles.   This is a classic pigment black ink; I’ve been using it on and off for years in a vintage Platinum Pocket pen. It even made the prickly, needlepoint-like Osmiroid copperplate nib sing. I was surprised by the feedback from the Lamy Safari nibs on some papers. With a light touch, it went away.     This is the gold standard for copy paper: Show-through and bleed-through are as faint as can be.    For anyone who draws, this ink is a must. It dries fast and you can do washes over it almost immediately.    There is some silver sheen on Iroful, which I have noticed with many pigment inks.    I needed a cleaning solution fo...

  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...

  Sailor Shikiori Sasabune   Ink Review # 226   Originally posted on FPN: Feb 05, 2026 --- 🧾  Description   Ink:  Sailor Shikiori Sasabune Available:  20 ml bottles. Pens Used:  Osmiroid Copperplate nib ,  Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ stub 1.1)   Many thanks to @lithium446  for this sample. I am smitten by this ink.    It’s a pale, legible, muted green.    I absolutely love everything about this ink, the gentle shading, hue and how it inspired me to explore Japanese ethos & poetry though art.     The ink surprisingly tames the scratchy ultra-extra-fine nib of my Osmiroid, but it was slightly scratchy with the Lamy Safari. If you have wet pens and soft nibs, it would be a better match.   The shading is gorgeous. This is an ink for @namre.    I won’t recommend it for copy paper; you’ll have some show/bleed-through.    If I didn’t already have enough greens in this shade, I would...