Ink Swatch Wednesday: Ancora x Sailor Jugoya

I am lucky to have a friend who occasionally visits Japan and is willing to pick up fountain pen ink for me and was around long enough to catch this seasonal ink. 🙂 This time it's the seasonal exclusive ink from Ancora celebrating the full moon, called Sailor Jugoya.

I made the swatch before I looked up what the ink's Japanese name is. If I would've run Google Translate on the picture of the ink bottle earlier, I would've seen the text across the moon art on the front says "Jugoya ink". 😅 From Wikipedia:

The celebration of the full moon typically takes place on the 15th day of the eighth month of the traditional Japanese calendar, known as Jūgoya (十五夜, fifteenth night)...

It's a harvest moon celebration, a fall holiday. I got this ink just now due to scheduling conflicts. 😅 I think this ink is sold whenever there is a full moon, not just the particular fall harvest moon, but don't quote me on that.

Anyway, it's a pretty, translucent, cool purple with blue and pink chromoshading. Sailor and many other ink brands have inks with purple, blue, and pink chromoshading in various ratios, so here are some from my library. None are a direct match for Jugoya, but they're in the same vicinity.

Here are comparison swatches of other well-known Sailor chromoshaders to help get your bearings:

I recently got a sample of Sailor Manyo Nekoyanagi from an ink swap and before I directly compared the swatches, I thought perhaps Jugoya was basically the same, but Nekoyanagi is lighter and leans more pink. I think Jugoya would be more easily legible than Nekoyanagi in regular writing.

Sailor Manyo Haha is obviously not a match, but since a lot of people are familiar with it, I thought I'd throw in the swatch for fun. It's a light sky blue that isn't overwhelmed by its subtler pink and purple shading.

Finally, Sailor Ink Studio 123 has more blue and green tones in addition to strong pink shading. In writing, it appears a darker purple than Nekoyanagi, making it the closest match to Jugoya in the batch, but not exact.

Troublemaker Foxglove and Milky Ocean are blue/purple/pink chromoshaders, too. Foxglove is closer to Jugoya's purple than Milky Ocean's strong blue-leaning mix, but the strong pink tones push it more towards Nekoyanagi.

My final pair of inks from Vinta are again closer to Sailor Manyo Nekoyanagi and Troublemaker Milky Ocean. I don't really have any inks in my library that are straight dupes for Jugoya, but I think there are probably other inks out there that could be. Sailor has such an extensive ink library that they might have another ink in the standard collection that is a good match. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Also, if anyone knows of cool Japan-exclusive inks I should be on the lookout for, please let me know. My friend is going back to Japan in a few months. 😄