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Namiki Yukari Royale Parrot with Peach
Namiki Yukari Royale Parrot with Peach
A whimsical and idyllic depiction of the natural world, the Namiki Yukari Royale Parrot With Peach is a lively, colorful Maki-e pen that will be the highlight of many a collection. Just a handful of these pens will ever be created, and we are able to provide them with your choice from among Namiki's solid gold 18k nibs.
The Namiki Yukari Royale Parrot with Peach uses detailed Maki-e to depict the parrot and the peach, two important cultural symbols in China. The larger size of the Yukari Royale lends an ample palette for the beautiful Maki-e on this pen.
The parrot is found in southern China, and symbolizes marriage, fidelity, and loyalty. Similarly, the peach is also a representation of marriage, as well as life and immortality. The peach-tree of the gods was said to bear the fruit of eternal life.
Gold dust sprinkled throughout the design creates a rich frame for the revered parrot as it perches on the peach tree branch. Pearlescent blues, greens, and corals round out the color palette and help the design stand out against the black background.
Take a closer look at the luscious peaches hanging from the gold-dusted branch, shown on the cap detail.
The 18k nib is imprinted with Mt. Fuji in a white platinum wash as well as with the Namiki pentagon. This pentagon can also be seen on the top of the clip. Notice that lacquer with gold dust is also applied to the clip, unifying the dark color with the rest of the pen.
As always with the Namiki Yukari Royale series, this pen is both a superb everyday writer as well as a work of art in its own right.
The presentation box is made of a light wood and is red velvet-lined, with a bottle of ink provided.
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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.. |