Sailor Hanabishi Mon Kamakura Bori Fountain Pen

Sailor Limited Edition Hanabishi Mon Kamakura Bori Fountain Pen

“Hana (flower) - Bishi( type of waterweed)” design exists from ancient times in Japan. The design is used for one of family emblems in Japan. This design is the common design chosen by Kamakura-bori artist as a basic design. The shape of a leaf of “Hishi (Bishi)” is rhombus. 4 pcs of the leaves are neatly arranged so that the design looks like petal of “Flower”. Only 10 pieces of Sailor Hanabishi Mon Kamakura Bori Fountain Pen are ever being produced and each pen is fitted with a 21 kt gold nib.

About Sailor Pen Japan

Sailor Pen Japan was founded in 1911by Kyugoro Sakata, an engineer from the historic naval port of Hiroshima in Japan, who was introduced to a Fountain Pen brought from England by a sailor friend. He was determined to produce a finely crafted Japanese writing instrument with the highest specification and writing experience.

The company was named Sailor Pen with the aspiration of expanding this home grown name, Sailor Pen, internationally like the voyages of a Sailor.

Sailor Pen became the first company to produce Fountain Pens for domestic Japanese market and it is credited to be one of the oldest established pen companies in Japan. Sailor Pen has continued to maintain its heritage of quality and technical excellence over more than a 100 years since then.

Today, Sailor Pens are remembered by any avid fountain pen users as the gold standard in Japanese fountain pen nib making from its late nib artisan, Nagahara Nobuyoshi 長原宣義. Many nib designs by Sailor Pen are hotly sought after by collectors for its extraordinary writing ability like the Sailor Concorde nib which allows one to write in both fine nib and brush strokes font style on just one fountain pen nib by turning it upside down.

Sailor Pen is also well known for making Japanese makie fountain pens which are usually made by master Japanese artisans in Kaga 加賀 makie style. Notable Sailor Limited Edition fountain pens made to commemorate its 100^th Anniversary in Arita, Sailor Limited Edition Noto Nogoro Fountain pens and Nagahara Nobuyoshi’s Retirement Pens are just some of the many popular fountain pens made by the Japanese pen manufacturer based in Hiroshima.