Crónicas Estilográficas

So, these prototypes were made by Sakai Eisuke. Then, how are they compared to other pens made by this master? Needless to say, Mr. Saka...

In the 1980s Pilot renovated the fountain pen lineup. It all started with the Pilot 65 in 1983 —the first modern balance Pilot, save the Art...

If only for the sake of documenting Ban-ei (挽栄) pens at large, it might be worth to publish a family picture of nibs used on them. Ban-e...

Ban-ei (挽栄) , as we know by now, was a pen brand created by Sakai Eisuke (酒井栄助) with the collaboration of a number of expert craftsmen--Tak...

The fountain pen jargon is not always accurate. At times, words acquire a new meaning to fit an old concept—that was the case of kimono as a...

The so-called Japanese eyedropper system – inki-dome shiki (インキ止め式) in Japanese— was in fact invented by Onoto in the beginning of the 20th...

My latest acquisition is an anonymous pen with a very non-anonymous nib. And this combination make the whole pen all the more intriguing, an...

The figure of Kubo Kohei (久保幸平) is already known to the readers. He is a very prestigious nibmeister with a long history of nibs made for hi...

Sometimes reading the pen is truly helpful. Well, mostly always. At the past Madrid Pen Show I saw the pen on the photograph. A Visco...