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Cigar Piccolo HOUSOGE (Black Lines)　

Housogei is painted by Chinkoku technique.
Chinkoku is a technique to put charcoal powder instead of gold and adhere it.
The entire surface including the cover is decorated with “Chinkoku”.
Housoge is an imaginary flower said to bloom in the Paradise.
It is one of the most popular arabesque patterns along with palmettes. Housoge is also depicted as a lucky pattern on a stringed instrument in the collection of the Nara Shosoin Repository.

Cigar Piccolo BUTTERFLY　

The butterfly that symbolizes human growth, change, and beauty, are used as a motif.
Pasting thinly pressed gold powders to the butterfly, and drawing the outline and overlay of butterfly wings with color grinding gold.
The gold lines are expressed pasting thinly pressed gold powders and covered the edges with urushi.
The black lacquer base makes the butterfly wings even more beautiful and stand out.

Writer Portable GOLDFISHES

Goldfishes and aquatic plants are drawn with the Maki-e technique. Goldfishes are expressed with polishing technique of Shu kin and silver. And their scales and lines of fins are drawn by gold powder, their eyes are drawn by silver and black.
The bubbles and the aquatic plants are expressed delicately with Maki-e.
By using black as the base, the beauty of Maki-e with gold and silver stands out, and creating a luxurious finish.

D-17 Portable IROHA MOMIJI　

D-17 Portable ZARYU

Writer Long SAKURA SAKURA　

Writer Portable PLUM BLOSSOMS

The entire barrel with plum blossoms and a plum roll stopper.

Dorsal Fin 1 ICE FIELD　

This pen is designed with image of an ice field in mind.
To sharpen the groove edges, cut it by carving knife.
Adding silver powders slightly to the groove.
It is left unpolished.

D-17 Portable LONG WISTERIA

This piece features an illustration of “fuji flower (wisteria)”.
The wisteria is drawn with alternating flowers, buds and leaves, using the iro-togidashi technique, providing a glamorous look.

D-17 Long WHALE & WAVE 　

The whale is drawn with charcoal powder and finished with a black urushi lacquer polished. The eyes are made of tiny cut gold, and the whiskers are drawn one by one and sprinkled gold powder.
The design is such that all the rough waves around the whale merge into one at the tip of the pen barrel. They are drawn with silver powder, and adding height differences to each wave, creates the looks of waves colliding violently. In addition, the waves lines of are drawn one by one with very thin golden lines. The waves are also drawn on the grip section.
The whale is boldly placed in the detailed waves on a gorgeous background applied urushi lacquer using gold powder, creating a lively and gorgeous finish.