Cuesta algo más diluirla. Magnífico color y texturas
Calidad extraordinaria. Muy recomendable. Gracias
Estoy encantado con esta tinta, maravilloso. Gracias
The paper is good for drawing colourful flower, which can show the petal lively
Product information
Koukaboku's story starts the same way at every star: in 1739, Kobaien's sixth head, Matsui Motoyasu, travelled to Nagasaki to study ink-making with masters of Qing China — and "the ink of flowers" was born from that exchange.
But one-star Koukaboku is ground from Kobaien's own mineral-based soot rather than rapeseed oil, and it is honest about what it is: a light, gentle black at full strength, best kept for dark ink work rather than pale washes.
It is not the ink to reach for when you want the drama of a deep charcoal line, but for daily practice — running through paper, warming up the hand before a real sitting — it is dependable in a way few things are.
One long-time sumi-e painter simply calls it consistent, easy even for a beginner. Sometimes that is exactly the quality worth having.
The meaning of the product name is as follows:
一 ( hitotsu : one )
星 ( hoshi : star )
紅 ( kou : crimson )
花 ( ka: flower )
墨 ( boku : ink )
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