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Cigar Piccolo FIRE

Cigar Piccolo MONSTER CAT

This work was produced in reference to a scary cat that comes tearing through a shoji (paper sliding door) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, an ukiyoe (woodblock print) artist of the Edo period (1603-1868).

When the cap is on, the willow tree looks beautiful through the torn shoji, but when the cap is removed, a skeleton appears in this elaborate work.
While the scary motif of the cat, like a monster cat, is on full display, the overall effect is humorous, and I was able to create a pen filled with the profound charm of cats that is more than just cuteness.

Cigar Piccolo FEATHER　

The motif of soft feather is drawn in Aka-tame sukashi.

Cigar Piccolo NOH MASK　

The illustration is drawn using iro-togidashi, a technique to which vividly-colored urushi and gold powder are applied. The expressive and glamorous design is brought to life using Iro-togidashi technique, which requires more labor as well as a high skill compared to the ordinary gold maki-e work. The fountain pen displays various views depending on the reflection of the light and the angle of view, which further enhances its beauty.

Cigar Piccolo GRAPES

A motif is “Grapes”. Grapes are famous for descendant prosperity because of a bunch of fruits and vines of grapes means unbroken continuing.

Cigar Long Kuro Ishime

”Kuro Ishime” uses black lacquer for a base color and black dry lacquer powder.
It has a beautiful jet black finish that looks like an obsidian.

“Ishime” is created with the special technique that makes stone like texture on the surface. When the dry lacquer powder is sprinkled on a lacquered surface, surface tension works and the powder gathered in places.
Making use of the clumps created by chance, layer the lacquer, let it fix, and then polish it to create “Ishime”. It will be the “cobblestone-like” finish in the garden.

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 Piccolo KAGUYA-HIME　

The main character of one of the oldest Japanese monogatari (fictional prose) “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter”, a young girl named “Kaguya-hime“, has become a motif for this pen depicted in different Maki-e techniques.
In order to express the beauty of Kaguya-hime we have painted her robes in Shu, Blue and Purple Colors, and gave her hair a slight feeling of volume by heaping the lacquer up a bit.
Next, we spread gold on the background, depicted silver moon and golden bamboo forest and using a coarser golden powder we created a feeling of distance around Kaguya-hime.

Cigar Piccolo SNOWFLAKES　

Cigar Portable CHINESE POND TURTLE

Two male turtles are arranged small on the cap, one female turtle are arranged big on the barrel and drew their own characteristic point by simple expression.