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Fountain Pen - Pilot Iroshizuku Ink - 3-Pack (Ama-Iro, Syo-Ro, Fuyu-Gaki)

I received as a gift the 3-pack sampler of Pilot brand Iroshizuku ink.  This set contains 15 mL samples of: Syo-Ro Ama-Iro Fuyu-Gaki I'm elated to receive this as I slowly build up my collection of fountain pen inks and now have 5 different Iroshizuku colors (Kon-Peki, Murusaki Shikibu). I inked one of my Pilot Metropolitan pens with Ama-Iro and was quite surprised at how much a lighter shade of blue and initially looks a lot like Kon-Peki; after it's dried.  Kon-Peki in comparison initially is much darker, but lightens up to what Ama-Iro looks freshly inked. Looking forward to trying the other colors and perhaps considering getting the other 3-pack samplers of (Asa-Gao, Shin-Kai, Yama-Budo) and (Tsuki-Yo, Take-Sumi, Kon-Peki) to establish a decent collection of 10 colors. Eventually, I may try to own all 24 standard colors and also the 3 special edition colors (Edo-Murusaki, Fukugawa-Nezu, and Shimbashi-Iro).  Based on some online research they released the special