Tomoe River 68gsm Softcover Notebook by SAKAE – Made in Japan

Tomoe River 68gsm Softcover Notebook by SAKAE — for anyone who has ever written one word in a fountain pen and wanted a paper that could keep up.

Tomoe River is the holy grail of fountain-pen paper: almost impossibly thin, feather-light, and somehow able to hold a river of ink without bleeding through. This is the 68gsm version — the heavier of the two weights Tomoe makes — for writers who want a little more substance under the nib. The softcover is hand-sewn with a black cloth spine and a silver Art Nouveau border stamped onto a deep charcoal cover. It looks like a century-old ledger. It writes like a cloud.

Details

• Paper: Tomoe River 68 gsm, white
• Pages: 160 pages
• Ruling: 5 mm dot grid (with sub-dot guides) or plain — your choice
• Sizes: A5 (158 × 215 × 7 mm) or B6 (139 × 187 × 7 mm)
• Cover: Softcover with cloth-bound spine, stamped Art Nouveau border
• Binding: Thread-bound, lies flat when open
• Made in Japan by MDS Co., Ltd.

Works beautifully with fountain pens, gel pens, rollerballs, fineliners, and pencils. Minimal ghosting, no bleed-through at normal line-widths, and the ink takes just a beat longer to dry — the trade-off every fountain-pen writer knows and loves.