Shachihata Oil-Based Ink Pad - Iromoyo Warabe - Traditional Japanese Colors - Mini

Truly, this is the best brand of inkpad I've come across, the pad material itself delivers the right amount of ink on your stamps so you can see every detail of it! Totally recommended!

Very nice ink- purchased for use on a large, detailed clear stamp. It applied a perfect amount of ink onto the stamp (harder stamp surface) that brought out the detail without accumulating in the small crevices (as opposed to the Versa Magic Dew Drop which is spongy and deposits a lot of ink causing loss of detail, if you are not careful). I purchased the "pine" and "konjyo" (dark/navy blue) - both beautiful, muted colors. I tried writing across the images with a Kuretake Zig double dot marker and Zebra Click art pens and there was no transfer of stamp ink to the felty tips even with the lightest of ink colors (such as baby pink). The colors I picked are not light enough to provide a "barely there" background (as Hobonichi grid patterns are) to then be able to journal over the stamp image and still be easily read, but still a great product and I will definitely be back for more colors. Plus the interlocking cubes are perfect for preserving our very precious storage space : )

I wasn't expecting the color of the ink to be so even but they work super well with my stamps and they aren't extremely wet like some other pads that can get ink on the edges. Theyre also a lot firmer than I expected, but that helped with making sure that the ink was on every spot I needed. Definitely recommend since they're easy to store and I can take one outside easily without losing bag space. 11/10