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Namiki Nippon Art Golden Pheasant
Namiki Nippon Art Golden Pheasant
The Nippon Art Collection Golden Pheasant offers an affordable introduction to the world of Maki-e pens. This hand-finished pen utilizes Hira-maki-e technique, in which gold dust and other metallic powders are sprinkled onto rich dark lacquer.
The Namiki Nippon Art Golden Pheasant utilizes gold powder Hira Maki-e technique created by artisans of the Kokkokai Maki-e workshop and is provided with your choice of #10 solid gold 14k nib.
The Nippon Art Golden Pheasant captures the sudden flurry of a pair of pheasants at take off. The background is filled with a flutter of heart-shaped particles raised by the beating wings.
The silver pheasant seen on the cap is pointed down, with its long tapered tail feathers spread out around the cap. The pheasant on the barrel, which we see as the male, is rising up. He is a much more colorful bird and we assume is rising to meet the female on the cap. Because the cap and barrel have a single start thread, the two birds always align beak to beak when the cap is screwed onto the barrel. The effect is one of motion, an instant of surprise and a meeting of winged creatures.
Each of these pens exploits the Hira-maki-e technique, a process where very fine gold dust and pigment is sprinkled over wet lacquer. The deep black lacquer background forms a base for these applied colors.
The artist's signature in calligraphic kanji script.
Nippon Art pens are supplied with the larger size CON-70 converter, giving these pens an ink capacity rivaling that of many piston-fillers.
This is a slender and lightweight writing instrument that will fit comfortably in most hands. The rounded shape is simple yet elegant.
The Namiki #10 solid gold 14k nib is inscribed with the silhouette of Mt. Fuji as well as the Namiki pentagon logo.
Namiki 14k gold nibs are well-suited to customizations including Stub, Cursive Italic, or Left Oblique, as well as the modification for added flex.
The Namiki Nippon Art Golden Pheasant fountain pen arrives in a traditional soft wood gift box lined with crimson velvet and comes with outer box and papers.
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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. 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.. |