Teiou-Shiboku inkstick ( Purplish-black, 帝王紫墨 )

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$27

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

Size: 0.7 (W:23mm L:75mm T:8mm Wgt:10gram)

Teiou-Shiboku ( 帝王紫墨 )- Kobaien inksticks, Nara, Japan

Teiou-Shiboku inkstick ( Purplish-black, 帝王紫墨 )

Size: 0.7 (W:23mm L:75mm T:8mm Wgt:10gram)

Price
$27

Product information

Teiou-Shiboku — 帝 (tei, emperor) 王 (ou, king) 紫 (shi, purple) 墨 (boku, ink) — takes its imperial name from purple itself, a colour prized as noble since antiquity.

Rapeseed oil soot is worked with a plant-extracted purple pigment to produce a soft, bright purple-indigo, equally suited to calligraphy and ink painting.

One customer, buying it for the second time, called it their favourite ink, saying the purplish hue gives the black real depth at any strength of wash.

Another simply loved how easily it ground and how beautiful it smelled — happy, they said, to grind all day without ever getting to the painting.

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