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Yet another pocket pen? Pocket pens were not necessarily inexpensive pens despite its reduce size. In fact, as we have seen, these pens s...

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...

Manu Propria is the brainchild of Martin Pauli, the Swiss craftsman behind the watch brand Angular Momentum founded in 1998. In 2013, searc...

Spring is always a fertile time in the pen scene in Japan. Spring is the season of the biggest pen events in Tokyo where oftentimes pen make...

There is no such a thing as a fake maki-e pen, I said in the past , provided the maki-e was actually there. On such pens, what matters mos...

Some months ago I presented a couple of pens decorated with urushi lacquer . Those were Pilot Custom 67 decorated by maki-e artist Hiroshi...

At some point in these texts I expressed my views on maki-e pens . There are some models that are well known because they are part of larg...

Most of what could be said about today’s pen was already said . But yet, it triggers some reflections on pens and their roles nowadays. M...

GK stands for Ginjirô Kabutogi. Or, Kabutogi Ginjirô (兜木銀次郎) in Japanese—family name first. We saw those letters imprinted on a couple of B...