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Cigar Piccolo AMANOGAWA

The design inspired by the “Milky Way” shining in the night sky is expressed with Raden.
A lots of fine shellfish (Mijin shellfish) of different sizes are used and put them in a spiral pattern with a gradation.
By making the base in black (KuroRoiro), the shine of Raden stands out, creating a finish that looks just like the Milky Way shining in the night sky.

Cigar Portable MANTEN

A starry sky is expressed by scattering small shellfish all over the black (KuroRoiro) base. Then the Milky Way more shining brightly is drawn in a spiral pattern in the starry sky. Also shellfishes are spread all over the grip section to create the feeling of a starry sky.
It has a more gorgeous and glittering finish than “Milky Way”.

Writer Portable WILD STRAWBERRY　

Based on Yakou Maki-e technique, we lay out several seashells (Raden).
Though we used many pieces of big shells in abundance and looks gorgeous, this artwork settled down the background kept the entire settled balance by Tame-nuri background.

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.

Miyabigi Series SEIBOKUYA

“Seibokuya” expresses the warmth of wood with its grain and the twinkling of the starry sky in Raden.

Since the decoration matches the grain of the wood, the expression of the urushi lacquer part differs from one piece to another.

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.

Cigar Piccolo SHAKEI-SONSETSU

The motif comes from the Shakei-Sonsetsu, a four-character idioms.
It means to study even if one is in a very difficult situation.
The four-character idioms comes from the story that Che Yin, a old Chinese politician read under the weak light of firefly in summer, and Sun Kang, a old Chinese official read with the moon light reflected by snow in winter.

Cigar Portable SPIDER

Nakaya expressed a Spider (Kumo) by “Sumiko” (charcoal powder) technique. The web was written by a thin brush pen and polished up (“togi-dashi”) after sprinking silver powders. The Spider has an appearance of solidity by “Taka-Maki-e” heaping up technology with black and yellow Urushi lacquer and polish up. (“togi-dashi”). Lastly, we added in detail parts of the Spider and polished up as Roiro (gross) finishing. On the grip section, a craftman used gold powder as base. A flower was written in gold, a butterfly was heaped up by Urushi lacquer and sprinkled by gold powder and rubbed with black and white Urushi and polished. (“togi-dashi”).