Crónicas Estilográficas

Plungers are old and new, particularly in Japan. Some of the first fountain pens arriving in this country were Onoto plunger fillers, and th...

The National Museum of Japanese History , in the city of Sakura (Chiba prefecture), hosts these days –March 8th to May 8th 2016—an exhibitio...

Along these past months there have been a number of events that might show something is changing in the stylographic scene. Isolated, these ...

I have already said that in the area of fountain pens, we can see Japan as a huge laboratory of experiments with filling systems. Sure enoug...

Usually, fountain pens with urushi and maki-e and chinkin decoration are made of vulcanized hard rubber (ebonite). However, in the Japane...

Thursday 31st (yesterday at the time of publishing this text) was the last day of Pen Station, the pen museum and café of Pilot in Tokyo. ...

Now that we know about what Mitsubishi and its three-diamond logo meant in terms of companies and activities, we can take a look at a coupl...