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

Mitsubishi Pencil Co ( ::1:: , ::2:: ) has just announced the acquisition of Lamy, the German pen company based in Heidelberg. The an...

The Japanese word “kanreki” refers to the celebration of the 60th birthday. For the occasion, the birthday guy wears a red outfit composed b...

The 2023 Tokyo International Pen Show (TIPS) took place during the first weekend of November 3rd to 5th, and it´s time to reflect on it and ...

The speed at which Chinese pen companies are releasing their new models is no longer a surprise. An obvious side effect of this practice is ...

We have just seen that the Pilot's model Custom 74 has been in the market for over 30 years . But what about the direct competitors in t...

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...

This past Sunday –June 11th–, the 23rd edition of the Pen Trade event took place in Tokyo. As I had said in the past, this is the actual pen...

One of the most interesting pens released in 2022 was the Platinum Decade, made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the model 3776 Century....

As we saw yesterday , Platinum has announced a new Izumo series of pens with a relatively new nib—a #3776 made of 18 K gold. It could be ...

Platinum has just announced a new release of the well-known Izumo series of pens. The name of this new variations is Iro Urushi, colored...