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Nobuo Itô's Swan become the most successful pen company in Japan around 1920. Its strategy was simple—copy the looks and style of the pe...

Hoshiawase (星合せ) pens have already been covered on these chronicles. And although they are indeed original and interesting —albeit a dead...

Eyedropper pens with shut-off valve are a very Japanese idea, we all know by now. This idea is, in essence, a simplification of the plunger ...

Spring is here, despite the weather conditions, and Spring is the season for the pen show organized by the Pen Collectors of Japan (PCJ) and...

This blog is hosted by Google and uses the tools of Blogger.com. It was an easy decision when I started these texts. At first, you only want...

(As seen at the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Literature ). The pens I am showing today belonged to HOTTA Yoshie (堀田善衛, 1918-1998)...

Not so long ago, I spoke about the second generation of Pilot´s Petit-1 . Sometime along 2011, should we remember, this pen had been modifie...