Crónicas Estilográficas

Regular commenter Saltire Turquoise posed a very interesting question to my initial description of Sakai Eisuke's prototypes made for P...

Nothing lasts forever... 万年筆の山田. Mannenhitsu-no Yamada. Mannenhitsu-no Yamada , the operation run by Mr. Kubota in the city of Ma...

Yatate pens are that style of pens popular in Japan til around 1920, when they ran out of popular appeal. Nowadays, the Taccia Covenant is ...

What kind of pens become anniversary pens? Among those made by the big three Japanese pen companies we can see three basic strategies. – ...

There are some people, mostly outside Japan, for whom anything related to urushi acquires a semi-mythical value. In Japan, some companies d...

The following picture shows the fundamental difference between pen shows in in the East and in the West: Pens, pens, and pens. Madrid...

The problem with anonymous pens is that not much you can say about them. You can describe it, guess its age,... and not much more. An ...

Yet a new ink in the market... The company Teranishi Chemical Industry has released a line of four inks under the name ハイカラ, Haikara in R...

This is not new, and years ago I already argued in favor of the original model over the opportunistic re-issue: Against marketing, histo...

The well-known Lamy Safari is a popular pen in Japan. And that despite the high price this pen commands—JPY 4000, plus tax, at this moment. ...