Here's the STUNNING, sage green Sailor Pro Gear Slim Wagashi Sakuramochi; I got mine from my favorite fountain pen shop: Stilo&Stile.
This is a Pro Gear Slim, which is likely my favorite fountain pen size, style, model. I saw very early photos of this pen in a few places online, including at Sailor Japan's website before vendors had listings for it. The 'official' Sailor photos made this pen's body look matte like the pens in the Sailor Shikiori Sound of Rain series, so I was STUNNED to see the sparkling glitter and the polished finish; I could not take my eyes away from the pen!!
I am a sucker for Sailor's glittery-bodied pens, so I am really, really glad I pre-ordered it as soon as it was available (way back in March) because the green pens tend to sell out lickety-split, and this one was no exception.
The color is simply gorgeous, a gentle, sage-grey-green with very soft pink finials with more glitter than on any of my other Sailor pens. I think it's been bedazzled. Really.
Many of you already know the inspiration behind this series: Japanese Wagashi (Confection) Sweets, and this one is based on sakuramochi sweets - which consist of sweet, pink-colored rice cake (mochi) with red bean paste (anko) filling, wrapped in a pickled cherry blossom (sakura) leaf.
Like the Manyo Series, each of these pens comes in a set with a bottle of ink; the ink included with this pen is Sailor Shikiori Miruai Seaweed (nori). Very coincidentally, I already had my Shikiori Manyou pen filled with a cartridge of this color.
Please ignore the Styrofoam/paper fuzz on the pen. I was too transfixed by the glitter to wipe the fuzzies away.
Because the online photos of this pen are somewhat misleading, I compared the pen to two other fairly familiar Sailor green pens, the infamous olive colored Manyo Nuts and the super shiny, highly polished blue-green Shikiori Manyou. Each green is pretty different from the other on these pens, as is the gold-colored furniture. Don't ask me why I wrote Sailor 1911 for the Shikiori Manyou; perhaps I was too enthralled with the Sakuramochi to have any memory of names at that point.
Thank you very much for sharing some of your time with me! Have a great day!
*PENS:*
Sailor Pro Gear Slim Wagashi Sakuramochi Limited Edition 2024 (M) 14k
Sailor Pro Gear Slim Manyo Nuts Shirakashi & Yamabuki (M/F) 14k
Sailor Pro Gear Slim Shikiori Setsugetsu Soraha Manyou (Four Seasons Summer ~ 10,000 Leaves or 万葉 Summer Leaves) (M/F) 14k
*INKS:*
Lennon Tool Bar Bird Monster Summer 2023 Limited Edition
Sailor Shikiori Miruai Seaweed Nori (bottle & cartridge)
Graf von Faber-Castell Olive Green
*PAPERS:* Hobonichi Plain Notebook Tomoe River Paper Grid (Stilo&Stile, 52gsm, ivory)
*HOBONICHI 2023 COVER:* Hobonichi Techo Night Flamingo ~ A5 Size (fits Hobonichi Techo Cousin); Hobonichi Techo Accessories Yuka Hiiragi: Cover on Cover for A5 Size (Light in the Distance) (Hobonichi Store)
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*TIMESTAMPS:*
0:00 ~ Intro
0:07 ~ Partial Hellscape that is My Desk
3:10 ~ The Japanese Sweets Box
4:24 ~ The Pen
7:08 ~ Sailor Pro Gear Slim Manyo Nuts Shirakashi & Yamabuki
7:55 ~ Sailor Pro Gear Slim Shikiori Manyou 10,000 Leaves
11:59 ~ Swatching Lennon Tool Bar Bird Monster (Col-o-Ring)
14:01 ~ Swatching Sailor Shikiori Miruai Seaweed (Col-o-Ring)
17:59 ~ Hobonichi A5 Notebook
18:52 ~ Sailor Pro Gear Slim Wagashi Sakuramochi
21:08 ~ Sailor Pro Gear Slim Manyo Nuts Shirakashi & Yamabuki
23:15 ~ Sailor Shikiori Setsugetsu Soraha Manyou 10,000 Leaves
26:03 ~ All Three Pro Gear Slims
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