Description

Product name: Cigar Portable Arai-shu（洗い朱）　[no.09108]
Price: US$842
Total weight: 26.0g
Body weight: 20.0g
Total length: 150.0mm
Barrel length: 138.0mm
Max diameter: 17.0mm
Barrel material: Ebonite
Description: It has more weight and stability than the regular 15mm pens.
This wide width tightly fits in your hand and has a sense of stability. This size will be recommended for those who feel the standard size is little slim.
The total length is the same as 15mm portable, Ryogiri and Dorsal fin series. The length without cap will be longer than 15mm portable, but shorter than Ryogiri and Dorsal fin series.
Only the cigar model is available.

The color "Arai-shu" is a different kind and quaint brighter vermilion from "Shu (vermilion)". "Arai-shu" means a light vermilion color because the color becomes lighter after washing the dyed cloth. The color can be said close to orange red. The color range is wide, from a vermilion like reddish color to a salmon pink kind of color are called "Arai-shu".
It is one of the colors that became popular in the late Edo period with the revival of Yamato-e.

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