Crónicas Estilográficas

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...

Kubo Kohei stands nowadays as the sole maker of nibs in Japan not associated with a pen maker. And this in itself is an interesting fact tha...

I have mentioned Mr. Iwase several times ( ::1:: , ::2:: ) on these Chronicles—he is a pen aficionado who decided to master the craft of rad...

The big three Japanese pen companies make their own nibs, and it seems very hard to get those nibs as spare parts or as third party nibs for...

Stylophiles are a special bunch. Driven by our anachronistic passion we often crave for certain features: gold nibs, self-filling mechanisms...