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Cigar Long DRAGONFLY in THE SUNSET SKY

The dragonfly which has been considered as an auspicious pattern that brings a good luck since ancient times is drawn. The image is that the red sky at sunset expressed by vermillion urushi lacquer and the dragonfly flies in that madder red sky. Vermilion is considered as a presious color represent of sun, fire, and life and has been used respectedly. To express a sunset view, I placed a kinhirame and sprinkled gold and platinum powder to create a pattern that resembled evening clouds. The body of dragonfly is drawn by taka maki-e techinique with gold lacquer, its compound eyes are expressed with kinhirame, and the wings are finished with raden.

Writer Piccolo TITANIUM

Writer Piccolo model is made with titanium. It is a single thread screw.
It has the inorganic texture and weight that comes from the property of metal.

GOAT SHRINK LEATHER

The fountain pen wrapped with goat shrink leather.
It is designed with a low center of gravity and metals are used to its cover and screws. Custimization is available to change the color of clip, pen nib, and metal parts.

The goat shirink leather is called “chari leather” in Japan, named after Mr. Charles Henninger who was an American tanner who promoted Western-style leather in Japan around the begining of Meiji era.
Crumple goat leather tanned with a plants astringency vertically, horizontally, and diagonally many times, to make deep unevenness on the surface. Because most of the processes needs expertise skill, only skilled craftsmen can manufacture it.
“Chari leather” is very rare and beautiful leather unique to Japan, it was used as a material for bags.

Cigar Long DESCENDING DRAGON　

“Descending Dragon” is drawn to the body. A dragon , has been living for a long period on the ground ascend to the heaven and catch a dragon ball. And the dragon trains there for long years and descends to the ground after training. There are many region opinions about how many years for staying in the heaven such as 100years, or 1,000 years. Also it is said that the color of dragon’s body when falling when rising is also different though the ascending dragon and the descending dragon are a pair of one. A craftsmen use “Hari-Kaki” technique which is scratching small lines by needle for the dragon’s scale. A background is Taka-Makie , a grip section is clouds by several kind of fine gold powders.

Cigar Long FIGHTING ROOSTERS

The details of such as the roosters wings and crest were carefully drawn with Maki-e technique. The dynamism of fighting cocks is expressed through the movement of the tails and soaring feathers. Such as the gold, silver and other colors stand out well on the black base, creating a very beautiful finish.

Cigar Long KARASU

Based on the crow painting from Yosa Buson’s signature work, “Kite and Crow”, it is expressed in Yako Makie.
The old tree and two crows were drawn using “Yako Maki-e” technique, and the snow is drawn by silver powder.
And branches of old tree covered with snow is drawn on the grip section using also “Yako Maki-e” technique.
Using “Yako Maki-e” technique made it possible to successfully express a calm and somber atmosphere of Ink brush painting (sumi-e).
The base color is “Aka-tamenuri”.
“Yako Maki-e” is Nakaya’s original name for the technique that drawing motifs with black lacquer on “tamenuri” base. As the Tamenuri background becomes brighter over time, the black lacquered motifs become more apparent.

NeoStandard KINTSUGI

For new barrel, the kintsugi-style maki-e lacquerware gives the appearance of having been repaired using the kintsugi technique, an ancient Japanese restoration technique.

NeoStandard BLUE BIRD

All of the bird’s body is painted with blue over a layer of gold. The wings were created by first drawing the thin lines with gold, and then spreading tiny shells all over.

Cigar Long ROBIN with WHITE ROSE　

Writer Portable FORGET-ME-NOT　

Drawing the little blue Forget-me- not flowers on the Kikyo color base express the ephemeral and modest image of the flowers.

The leaves are drawn with tsuke-gaki technique and the center part of the flower is drawn with silver lacquer.