I bought a whole-ass Tomoe River pad just to write my dear friend Isabelle every four months. Best money spent ever. I love this paper.

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This particular pad is produced by Yamamoto Paper in Japan, an excellent company run by proper paper geeks, and I recommend all of their products without reservation.
@pixelworship I wish Tomoe River was still made by Yamamoto. Since Sanzen took over production the quality has gone sharply downhill.
@silhelm I saw some older samples, and they did indeed look like shit. It seems Sanzen upped their game in 2022, though, and the paper seems different but not shit.
The Yamamoto pad I have is apparently from before Tomoegawa shut down production. Gonna need to stock up before it's all sold out.
@pixelworship last year the TR notebooks and calendars were effed up, fountain pen ink going straight through and feathering like crazy. Like there was no sizing at all (surfactant)