4 star Koukaboku inkstick ( 四星紅花墨 )

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** SIZE W:Width, L:Length, T:Thickness, Wgt:Weight

Size: 0.5 (W:14mm L:62mm T:0.7mm Wgt:10gram)

4 star Koukaboku inkstick ( 四星紅花墨 )

4 star Koukaboku inkstick ( 四星紅花墨 )

Size: 0.5 (W:14mm L:62mm T:0.7mm Wgt:10gram)

Price
$15

Product information

Koukaboku — 紅花墨, sometimes called "the ink of flower" — traces back to 1739, when Kobaien's sixth head, Matsui Motoyasu, travelled to Nagasaki and worked alongside Qing-dynasty ink craftsmen; what came from that exchange became one of Kobaien's finest ink families.

The 4-star grade is made from rapeseed oil and prized above all for its smoothness on the stone: pushed dark, it settles into a calm, beautiful black, and the lighter it's ground, the more the colour leans blue.

One customer, counting down the days for it to arrive, called the wait entirely worth it for a piece this intricate and finely made.

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