Kyo-no-oto - Hisoku

Kyo No Oto - Hisoku - Inky Inspirations Fountain Pen and Ink Reviews

Hisoku is a soft blue with subtle green undertones inspired by celadon porcelain glaze, offering eager shading, a powdery look, and excellent performance on premium papers with razor-sharp strokes and a dark halo. It dries in 10-20 seconds and performs well on office paper too.

Ink Review #209: Kyo-no-oto Hisoku

Kyo-no-oto Hisoku is a light yet usable blue-green ink with medium shading, tiny black sheen in large swabs, low water resistance, and 30-second dry time, behaving well on fountain pen papers with minimal feathering on copy paper.

ink review : TAG Kyoto – kyo-no-oto hisoku - inkxplorations

Hisoku is a soft pale grey-blue with green undertones that writes dry in finer nibs but improves with wetter pens, showing elegant shading, low saturation, quick 5-second drying, and minimal feathering or bleed-through across test papers.

12 Days of Inkmas: Kyo-no-oto #7 Hisoku - The Well-Appointed Desk

Kyo-no-oto Hisoku is a smoky blue-grey drier ink with a sandy feel that stands up on paper, providing legible fine lines, shading, and reddish-purple sheen especially on Tomoe River, performing better on office paper than watery alternatives.

Two Kyoto Ink Reviews: Ohara's Morning Snow and Hisoku

Hisoku is a unique muted steel blue resembling Renaissance painting tones, exhibiting gorgeous shading and sheen in wide nibs, with a wet flow despite not being deeply saturated, and chromatography revealing yellow undertones.