Product name　Traditional Lacquer Art Fountain Pen: Iro Miyabi

Product description

Designed for comfortable writing with a feather-touch

Sailor Fountain Pen is the oldest fountain pen manufacturer in Japan, founded in Kure City (Hiroshima) in 1911. In 2021, the main headquarters was moved from Tokyo back to Kure, where the company began all those years ago. 

The Iro Miyabi Traditional Lacquer Art Fountain Pen is a luxury line of fountain pens. Beginning sales in 2020, it expresses traditional Japanese iro (colors) and the modest beauty of miyabi (refinement) using colored lacquers. It was also gifted by then Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to world leaders at the G7 Hiroshima Summit in 2023.

The nib is 21K gold, made using unique technology not found anywhere else in the world. Their highly skilled craftspeople process the soft, high-purity gold to create nibs that write comfortably and with flexibility, creating their characteristic feather-touch writing ability. 

The body is made with ebonite. The lacquer on the pen is created using the ishime-nuri process, which gives the surface a textured, stony feel. Colored lacquer is applied in several layers before being polished into the finished product.

The lineup includes four elegant and luck-bringing colors: Usukō (fragrant wood/beige), Suō (sappanwood/red), Fukaai (deep indigo/blue), and Chitose Green (evergreen), which have been favored by aristocrats and samurai families since ancient times.

Retail price

1 pen (comes in a special paulownia wood box): ¥187,000 (incl. tax)

Supply period

Year round

Major retailers

Department stores, stationery specialty stores, bookstores, e-commerce sites

Company name

The Sailor Pen Co., Ltd.

Zip code

737-0883

Address

2-1-63 Tenno-Nishijo, Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture

HP

The Sailor Pen Co., Ltd. （English website）（External link）

E-Mail

[email protected]

Tel

+81(0)120-191-167