I like that this color looks like the color from a pencil, its lovely to write with

Great gray.

If I don't care for an Iroshizuku ink it's due to one factor - too light. Smooth juicy writing, but I know now I'm disappointed in light inks.

Faint blue undertone in my limited experience.

A lighter version of prussian blue. Shades nice, kinda interesting to look at, but not a BOLD colour. Its subtle, light, but heavy, like a cloudy foggy sky in midday spring in the desert. It would look nice as a daily writer, but for personal use like notes. Not great for documents, itll wash out, both physically and colour wise.

This is a beautiful gray. It was my first intro to Pilot Iroshizuku inks and they don't disappoint. Bought a full bottle of this and fuyu-gaki.

It has no yellow cast to it at all and incredible shading. I'm definitely buying the whole bottle

Love this ink. It was slightly darker than the sample but still a beautiful color.Used this ink in my TWSBI ECO with a Broad nib.

This a great shade of gray with excellent shading properties.

When I was looking for some new colors of ink to try, a friend recommended grey ink. Having just tried other Pilot Iroshizuku inks, I saw this shade and fell in love. In the pen, it produces a lovely grey that can shade from a darker stormy grey to almost a light graphite pencil grey. Love this shade!

not much basis for comparison but it worked well

Why talk about 50 shades of grey, when all you need is this one? It's the perfect companion to my grey Lamy Safari with an EF nib. I use this on a Black and Red double wirebound notebook for light note taking. The ink dry time is great, the shading is noticeable and wonderful. I see variations from lighter grey to a mid range grey. It's great for a more formal setting where you don't have to use blue or black. It's just different enough to be unique, but not out there like a Kosumosu or a Ku-jaku.

This is, bar none, my favorite ink. I had been searching for a perfect gray (tried Noodler's Lexington Gray - it was nice but too dark for my tastes, and tried the de Artementis Silver Grey (Communion Grey) - almost right, then tried Lexington Gray mixed with Whiteness of the Whale - even better than the Silver Grey), but Fuyu-syogun is perfection. The slightest bit blue, but nothing like a watered-down black, it flows like butter. What is not to love?

Great ink, wonderful packaging, pricey.Really interesting color, nothing else feels the same to me. Moody.

Used on white Rhodia paper with a fine pilot capless FP nib.Color goes from very light gray to medium gray. It might be because I used a fine nib, writing with an inconsistant speed. Some -fast writen words- are way too light to my taste. You may want to look around for visual-reviews of this ink. If you write fast, with a very fine nib, on nice white rhodia paper, you'll need to like very light grays to like this one. I haven't tried it with a medium or broad nib, it should get out better / darker. Otherwise, no ink problems (bleedthrough, etc.) with that ink-paper-pen combo.

As the name suggests, this is a wintry ink. It is a gray that leans heavily toward a cold bluish feel. I thought I'd like it, but discovered I prefer Kiri-Same which is much warmer gray. Like all Pilot inks, this one is well behaved and nicely lubricated.

The pale bluish gray color of this ink is very attractive, but it is watery and, at least with some paper-pen combinations, can give the writer the feeling of the page growing soggy under the nib as one writes. In view of the high price of this line of inks, I am disappointed.

Overall, a very nice steel-grey with nice shading with the right nib. The only reason I'm giving it four stars is that it's a bit watery for my taste as compared with the other ink's I've tried and own. Looks great in my TWSBI Diamond 540 F nib.

a dark, cool grey, with undertones of blue, that shades very well and is very smooth.

I like this ink and it matches my Lilac Platinum Plaisir Fountain Pen. It is a little light in that pen, but in my Visconti with the Broad Nib it's darker. I like both shades.

The light color can make it hard to read sometimes, and the subtle blue tint is easily missed in the absence of something truly monochromatic, but it's a lovely shade of gray with nice shading qualities. Very smooth and fast-drying too--good for a lefty!

First, I love this color. I'm usually a blue/black ink fan, but this is a great variation. I've used it in every day since I got it. Second - I'm not sure, but I think this Iroshizuku ink may be the finest writing ink out there. It transforms every pen I've tried it with into a much better writing instrument. You might not have to get a new pen, just get some of the Pilot Iroshizuku inks!

Again this makes me glad I got a sample while I liked the ink I wasn't as huge a fan of it as I had expected. Nice lubrication on the nib, it behaved well on all the papers I tested it on and the color was ok. It is the perfect stormy sky color.

The gray is a darker shade than I'd expected, which is a very good thing! Try using it for sketches and ink drawings; you can create some pretty interesting and beautiful gradations with the ink!

This is one of my top three favorite inks. It closely resembles Montblanc Midnight Blue, although it is not iron all. It does show decent water resistance, fast dry time, excellent flow, and is easy to clean out of pens. How can you not like it?

This grey has IMO more character than the Kiri-Same; it has a silvery look, a faint hint of blueness

Fuyu-syogun is not just another grey ink. It shades beautifully, even in finer nibs. It has a great blue tint to it. It is called Old Man Winter, and that is such an appropriate name, since it just looks cold. It is reminiscent of a snowy, cool winter sky. This ink is the perfect manifestation of those hours before the snow starts falling. On top of its great characterful appearance, it performs as flawlessly as any other ink in the Iroshizuku line. It shades well, and is lubricated perfectly, so that it flows effortlessly even through the driest writing pens. Worth every penny.

I love this ink. I noticed that all of Iroshizuku series have a great flow and very smooth feel to them, but the color of this ink is amazing. It's gray, but leaning towards blue. Shading of this ink is absolutely beautiful! I ended up buying a bottle immediately and now few of my pens are filled with this ink.

I like using black ink but it can look a little harsh sometimes, like you're writing in all caps. This is just a bit softer than a full on black ink. I lied it so much I bought a bottle. Smooth ink in a few different pens.

Just loaded this color in my Kaweco. This is a light color with very good shading. It is still quite easy to read. The ink itself is _very_ well behaved. Love it.

I got a sample of this ink, and I'm in love with it! It flows very good in my Pilot Metropolitan fine nib and the color is gorgeous, a clean, cool gray. It is a bit on the light side, so I don't think it's suited for writing page after page with text, but I still find myself reaching for the pen and looking for excuses to write with it, because I like the ink so much. I'm also impressed by the water resistance; when I wash over it with a brush, I just notice a tiny bit of fading, but the lines are still there and I have to look closely to see if I actually went over it with water.