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Cigar Piccolo PALMET (Colorful Lines)　

Palmetto pattern is expressed using “Chinkin” technique with color powders.
The colorful flowers are different from monochromatic ones, resulting in a gorgeous and beautiful finish.

The base color can be selected from Kikyo, Shu or KuroRoiro.

Cigar Piccolo HOUSOGE (Colorful Lines)　

“Housoge” pattern is expressed using “Chinkin” technique with color powders.
Whole body including the grip section is decorated with the pattern.
The colorful flowers drawn by color “Chinkin” create a fascinating beauty that is different from single color “Chinkin”.
Since the base color is black, the pattern with colors looks most vivid and beautiful on it.

“Housoge” is an imaginary flower that is believed to bloom in the heaven. Along with palmetto, it is one of the most popular arabesque patterns. The “Housoge” pattern is also used for decolating the strings instruments in the Shosoin as an auspicious pattern.

Cigar Piccolo HOUSOGE (Platinum Lines)　

Housogei is painted in chinki-platinum.
Platinum is a technique in which platinum powder is added after engraving and adhered to the surface.
The entire surface including the cover is decorated with platinum.
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 HOUSOGE (Gold Lines)　

“Housoge” pattern is expressed with “Chinkin” technique.
Whole body including the grip section is decorated with the pattern.
The high contrast of the black base color and the gold of “Chinkin” pattern makes the finish really gorgeous.

“Housoge” is an imaginary flower that is believed to bloom in the heaven. Along with palmetto, it is one of the most popular arabesque patterns. The “Housoge” pattern is also used for decolating the strings instruments in the Shosoin as an auspicious pattern.

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.

Writer Long SKULL　

A skull is put on the top of the cap on the barrel which is heaped up with charcoal powder. A skull is finished with vermeil (gold plated on silver). A clip is made of black urushi lacquer baked on and heaped up with a little gold. The clip is made to look like a backbone and the face of the skull goes around to the back of the cap so that you can’t tell it is a skull when you put it in, but when you take it out, you can tell it is a skull.

Writer Long Izumi no Kami Kanesada　

The design is modeled after the sword mountings (“koshirae”) of Toshizo Hijikata’s beloved sword, “Izumi no Kami Kanesada”.
The body was painted using a technique called “Honshu Kanshitsu Kuronurikomi Togidashi”, apply black lacquer to vermilion “ishime” and polish. A phoenix motif is drawn on the barrel with charcoal powder, and a peony motif is drawn on the cap with black lacquer.
The both tips of the pen are made to look like a scabbard tip of sword, “kojiri”, and are finished with charcoal powder to make them matte and fringe it with gold.
For the grip section, a paper mulberry leaf is drawn with silver on a charcoal powder finish base, and draw the veins of the leaf with black lacquer on it, then applied transparent blackish amber lacquer and polished it.
Using various techniques, we have created a piece that resembles the real sword mountings of the sword.

Writer Portable GOKO DOKURO (Centipede ＆ Skull)　

People’s deep seated grude changes into the apparition expressed by Sumik- technique. A Centipede creeps out from the cave of trees is projected on this pen. A n allowhead is described as disregarding like the former artwork “Ayakeshi” on the grip section. The story of the Centipede extermination originates in Hyota Tawara (Hidesato Fujiwiara). After raising by rust (called “Sabi-age”” technique)for a background, paint Urushi with Sumiko with silver powders. The Sabiage (rust raising) technque is a suitable technique though effectively goes down also to a crackframing part that exists in the work of the former artwork (East and West encounter) use,and puts out violent. A Centipede is pained in colors after Gin-yuji heaping up technique and grossly polished. For a grip section, we sprinkled gold powders after rust raising technique and Sumiko finishing. Lastly, we set a silver rolling stopper of Skull at the top of the pen.

D-17 Long KARASU TENGU　

The motif is the crow tengu. Like the tengu, there are legends of Karasu-tengu in various parts of Japan, and although there is no established theory, it is said that Karasu-tengu excelled at swordsmanship, had divine powers, and even taught swordsmanship to Ushiwakamaru in Kurama, Kyoto. It is said that he taught Ushiwakamaru swordsmanship in Kurama, Kyoto. This piece is made using the advanced technique of kaki-wari based on charcoal powder finishing.

Cigar Piccolo SANYO-CHU (Trilobite)　

Trilobite fossil finished with charcoal powder.
It is a painstaking process in which layers of charcoal powder are piled up and scraped away little by little, as if digging up a real fossil.