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I have often said that I just write about what I see. And then I publish my texts and wait to see how readers react to them. Not many com...

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...

Besides the big three Japanese pen companies –Pilot-Namiki, Platinum-Nakaya, and Sailor– there are a bunch of small operations, some of whic...

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...

On this text, some more notes on Ban-ei (挽栄) pens, including some corrections to my own words. These pens made by Sakai Eisuke (酒井栄助) an...

Ban-ei pens have shown up several times on these Chronicles and the basic data are is well known. But the devil is in the details: Sakai Ei...