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Nakaya Naka-ai Writer Midori

Nakaya Naka-ai Writer Midori

Regular price $759.00 USD
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Dark green Midori is one of the most appealing solid color urushi finishes, and the new Naka-ai Writer showcases this hue to great advantage. Yellow gold trim with the dark green of Midori gives a warm, inviting appearance to this exceptional fountain pen.

Designed by Nakaya master pen designer Shinichi Yoshida in collaboration with John Mottishaw, the Naka-ai, with its cone ends and tapered body, combines many of Nakaya’s most distinctive design features in a single model. ""Naka-ai"" has the meaning of middle or in-between, and brings to mind the Middle Way of Buddhist practice with its emphasis on balance, integrity, and centeredness. Appropriately enough, the Naka-ai occupies a midway position between Nakaya's smaller Piccolo series pens and the longer Deskpen.

Hand-turned from ebonite hard rubber at the Nakaya workshop in Tokyo and then sent to the Wajima region on the west coast of Japan for urushi lacquer finishing, each Nakaya pen is unique - no two will ever be exactly alike. Ebonite is both comfortable in the hand and also a highly durable material that has been used for quality fountain pens for more than a hundred years.

The Nakaya Naka-ai is a cartridge-converter pen that can be filled with bottled ink using the provided converter. It can also be filled using Platinum brand high quality cartridges. Hand-paintedMaki-e converters are also available.

The Nakaya Naka-ai Writer in Midori is provided with your choice of solid gold 14k single-tone nib in Extra Fine, Fine, Medium, Broad, or Extra Broad, with Fine Soft, Medium Soft, and Super Extra Fine nibs also available.
The double slit Music nib is available at an added premium, as are plated nibs in Pink Gold, Rhodium, Ruthenium, or Two-Tone.
The larger tipped 14k nibs are well-suited to customizations including Stub, Cursive Italic, and Left Oblique, as well as the modification for added flex.

This pen is also made available in a matching ballpen version.
Nakaya pens ship in a solid softwood shipping box decorated with Japanese Kanji script and lined with decorative rice paper. A fabric pen ""kimono"" and starter box of Platinum brand cartridges are also included, making this pen a lovely presentation item. Sensible and elegant packaging has long been a hallmark of the Nakaya brand.
Nakaya pens are individually handcrafted in a process that requires a minimum of three to six months and often much longer.
Unless requested otherwise, each pen or nib you purchase from us will be carefully examined, tested, and optimized for your personal writing characteristics before it ships. See our nib set-up and optimization page for more details.

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