Tag: urushi

  • Pen Review: Nakaya Decapod Writer Aka-tanemuri

    Pen Review: Nakaya Decapod Writer Aka-tanemuri

    On July 31st last 2017 I reviewed the Nakaya Piccolo Writer Kuro-tamenuri. Twenty-eight days before that review was published I had ordered my own Nakaya. Ten months later it finally arrived; the Nakaya Decapod Writer Aka-tamenuri with a broad bi-colour nib. It’s been a long wait but I think it was worth it and having this one…

  • Pen Review: Nakaya Piccolo Writer

    Pen Review: Nakaya Piccolo Writer

    I never fully appreciated Nakaya pens (or any of the artisan Japanese pen makers) but I’ve found myself looking at them closer and closer this year. I recently ordered a Nakaya Decapod Aka-tamenuri (it takes many months for them to be made) but in the mean time this Nakaya Piccolo Writer was very generously lent…