A good Ink that behaves well like all pilot inks. The color is not particularly exciting, but has a professional look if you're going for a neutral brown thing.

great!!

My first bottle of this ink. It is very nice but not as intense as I thought it would be.

A beautiful, sophisticated brown with excellent flow. I find it to be quite a 'wet' ink, which performs beautifully in my broader nibs. I primarily use it for my coffee brewing journal; the shade is a dead ringer for a coffee stain in script form. It adds a wonderful, thematic touch to my entries.

The order arrived expeditiously. Great ink and service as always.

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This is my all time favorite ink and I've used it for years. It's distinct, but still professional. Exquisitely understated. Works equally well for thank you notes and legal briefs.

No sheen and not much shading, but very consistent and has Pilot's impeccable quality.

Beautiful color. I love brown ink in an amber pen. My favorite inks are Pilot the Iroshizuku series.

awesome! a super soft chestnut brown

excellent ink properties-like all the Iroshizuku inks, and the color seems just right

An amazingly beautiful deep Chestnut brown. Between Sailor Shikiori Tokiwa-Matsu (or Diamine Classic Green) and this ink I've got two colors that I use every day.

Great ink, great bottles, great package. Tough to buy ink with small swatches on a computer screen when seeking specific looks. Hope you are using quality technology when illustrating colors. Prob. should buy smaller bottles initially, but so be it. Will buy more seeking 'the look I want with each color choice.' Great source and notes.

This dark chestnut brown ink is what I was looking for. I like darker inks so this will be a good addition to my collection. It behaves well and looks good on white paper. Thanks for the well packaged product and fast delivery Goulet Pen Company!

This is a very nice brown ink, my first. I have liked the quality of all the Pilot inks.

Beautiful packaging, beautiful bottle. Generous amount of ink. Very nice brown colour ink. If it had a higher water resistance I'd use it more.

The Iroshizuku (color + dew) or as I heard one beautiful translation, The peaceful colors of nature. The Yama - guri (Wild Chestnut) brown is just what I was looking for! It is slightly darker than what my screen shows (that's typical, I've worked with colors and CMYK translations for years), so I was betting on that. It looks great on the lightly buff hued paper many journals are made of. These are of a cool, natural, feel that is only missing the rustic table and oil lamp. The pen that has been inked is the Pilot/Namiki Silvern Tsumugi, a sterling silver pen with a silk pattern etched into the silver. Aesthetically, it could not be better. When silver begins to age the tarnish is a blackish bronze that is close to the chestnut brown of the ink. It goes on smoothly, and as with all Iroshizuku inks I've got, dries fairly fast. INHO, this is a must have for Pilot enthusiasts.

I have ordered lots of ink through Goulet and always felt they were a match to the swab--in this case, yama-guri, it would be a rich medium brown. But not this time; it's just a very dark gray/khaki. Looking again at the writing samples above, I think the warmth on this ink must come through more nicely in a broad nib/swab. Here is a photo from my ink journal.

This ink flows beautifully from my Pilot Custom 823 fine nib. I am a lefty and I push to write which can add a degree of friction to the page. Absent with this ink combo! The color is perfect. Dark enough to be seen on shaded paper yet the cool brown comes through. Perfectly content to keep this a dedicated combo forever!

This was my first Iroshizuku ink, but it almost certainly won't be my last. After writing several pages of correspondence on a variety of papers, I am becoming a fan. The flow for me is silky smooth, the saturation is very high, shading is almost non-existent with a medium-dry Pelikan fine-point and subtle with a wet Edison medium-point. Dry time was fast enough that it doesn't disturb me or smear while writing left-handed, and feathering was modest on even highly absorbent hand-laid cotton papers. The color is a dark brown that is easy to read on white, cream, and yellow papers, and it dries very dark. On a yellow legal pad, it almost looks black. Overall, the color is different enough to show some personality, but conservative enough to use on almost any correspondence. If this is what Pilot Iroshizuku inks are about, I want to try more!

I love this ink. I'm currently using it in an Esterbrook Phaeton. The color is very nice, brown with some black/green in there. I had been looking for a non-chestnut brown color and this really fits the bill

I fell in love with the performance of this ink. The color is a brown with slightly green hues that are only noticeable if you are comparing other browns. I Personally preferred this ink over tsukushi which appears to be the more popular pilot brown. This is much darker and less red than tsukushi.

Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-guri ink is a consistent dark brown and a beautiful shade. It works very well with the Montblanc Meisterstuck 146. Better than expexted.

This ink flows smoothly and writes beautifully. The color is subtle, a dark brown that almost looks black. The bottle design is gorgeous as well.

A nice, deep chestnut hue. Earthy brown with the a trace of moss. With a wet nib it'll shade a little and go fairly dark. Not as playful as some of the Robert Oster brownish inks, like Cafe Crema, so maybe this is suitable for a professional environment --particularly if you're bored of the usual blue/black range. (Note that I'd stop short of calling this a 'brown black'.) As I find typical with Iroshizuku inks, they have excellent flow and are generally very consistent no matter which pen I use. The hues are nice without being flashy. Usually I'm wary of the premium priced inks as many of them don't live up to their high price tag. But these inks are not only on the lower end of the premium price spectrum, they are truly great inks.

Best ink I have purchase. Quite professional for a brown. Quite worth the purchase!

Delightfully antique looking. A lot of people talk about a green tone in it and I'm not seeing that. It writes crisply and dries quickly.

Writes incredibly smooth and the color is beautiful! 4 out of 5 since it's expensive although you do get an incredible ink.

I am new to the world of FPs and wanted to find an ink that would tick a few boxes for me and this ink delivers.1) dark enough to be used in a business environment, but unique enough to show my personality and make personal writing enjoyable.2) fast drying. I have a TWSBI 580 with F nib inked up. I haven't smudged yet across copy paper or in my moleskine journals.3) look cool in the 580. Yes it is dark, but the hint of colour looks great in the demonstrator. Sure a green or red would pop, but in a conservative office environment thisbis great.4) look cool on my desk. That bottle is just a thing of beauty. When clients or superiors come in it shows a hint of class and a nod to doing things by hand. Love it.Overall, I love this ink. I am excited to try others in the Iroshizuku line. I'm not exeperiend in the world of FPs and ink but this experience has led me down the rabbit hole so to speak.

I ordered Iroshizuku Take-sumi (bamboo charcoal) and Yama-guri (wild chestnut) at the same time because I wanted a sedate ink for my journal. I tried the Yama-guri first in a Pilot Falcon with a SF nib. This ink is such a beautiful dark brown in my Midori Notebook that I've felt no need to even try the Take-sumi yet as I've been so taken with the dark, restrained elegance of Yama-guri. Beautifully behaved ink as well. Highly recommended!

The yama guri is a great other-than-black ink to use. It offers the same solidity as a black but adds the subtle nuance of brown that makes writing beautiful bringing back the impressions of true chestnut and earthy goodness of roasting them around Christmas. The Japanese definitely the nuances of color and this one rings true and hits the heartstrings of wholesome goodness. Love it!