Nakaya
Nakaya Naka-ai Writer Ishime-Katshitsu Kikyo
Nakaya Naka-ai Writer Ishime-Katshitsu Kikyo
Available exclusively from us here at Nibs.com, the Nakaya Naka-ai Writer Ishime-Kanshitsu Kikyo is hand produced in a process that can take six months or more. Dried urushi lacquer is sprinkled over the pen surface to achieve the stone surface finish - the urushi artist even hand adjusts the urushi flakes to ensure that they form a consistent and aesthetically pleasing surface!
Our complimentary nib tuning helps ensure that your Nakaya pen will have performance equal to its distinctive appearance. Our optional nib customizations add character and flair to your writing on the page, and can make this pen a valuable tool for the professional or amateur calligrapher.
Nakaya pens are hand-turned from natural ebonite hard rubber in Tokyo, then sent to Wajima, on the west coast of Japan, for hand-finishing by skilled urushi artists. Ishime-Kanshitsu is a particularly painstaking and time intensive technique. After each finished pen is assembled and inspected in the Nakaya workshop in Tokyo, final nib setting and tuning is done here at the Nibs.com office in Miami.
Each Nakaya pen ships in a special softwood presentation box decorated with kanji-style script. A fabric pen kimono and starter pack of Platinum ink cartridges are included - the pen can also be filled with any bottled fountain pen ink by utilizing the provided converter. We are an authorized Nakaya dealer, and each pen is carefully tested by us before shipping
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Customization Guide
Stub
 
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Above is the same size nib after a regrind to Stub. A regrind to Stub is often a good place to start for your first customization. Â A Stub nib provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes while writing, and is less position-sensitive on the paper than the crisper and slightly more demanding cursive italic.
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Cursive Italic
 
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More demanding, but also providing crisper edges and more line-width variation, is the very popular customization to Cursive Italic. This also provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes, but is also more position-sensitive in terms of how the pen is held and requires more skill on the part of the user. This is a common customization for artists and calligraphers, but is still smooth enough to make for a good everyday writer.
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Formal Italic
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Formal Italic is an even crisper and more demanding customization than either cursive italic or left oblique, and is usually utilized for calligraphy and by the most experienced users. This provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes, with even crisper corners and edges than a cursive italic - this is an extremely position-sensitive customization.
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Left Oblique
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 Commonly used for signatures and correspondence, the Left Oblique customization provides broad diagonal strokes and narrow cross-strokes, and like a cursive italic, is more position-sensitive and demanding than a stub. The whole pen must be rotated to the left in order to write smoothly, without skipping. The "Left" in Left Oblique refers to the cut of the nib itself, and does not refer to the handedness of the writer. |
Architect's Point (Also for Arabic and Hebraic writing)
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A more exotic regrind is that to Architect’s Point. Named after the style of writing used by Frank Lloyd Wright, this regrind is the opposite of cursive italic, and provides for broad cross-strokes and narrow down-strokes. This also tends to be a particularly useful customization for those practicing Arabic or Hebraic calligraphy. |
Spencerian
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Perhaps our most popular customization, but also one of the most advanced, the Mottishaw Spencerian Customization has gained special attention from being featured in a customer's YouTube video which has now received over twelve million views! The Spencerian starts from a semi-soft 14k nib and adds additional flex and a regrind to needlepoint to create a specialized writing point used for copperplate calligraphy. For more details, visit our special Spencerian page.. |