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Platinum Izumo Yakumonuri Togi Yakumo
Platinum Izumo Yakumonuri Togi Yakumo
The Platinum Izumo Yakumonuri Togi Yakumo features an intricate Maki-e design inspired by paintings of floating clouds on the ceiling of the sacred shrine in Izumo, Japan. Silver powder and urushi lacquers are hand-applied to the ebonite body of this pen, which utilizes Platinum's convenient and reliable cartridge-converter filling system.
As with any pen you purchase from us, the Izumo Yakumonuri Togi Yakumo qualifies for our complimentary nib tuning services, which help ensure that your pen will not just be a beautiful art object, but also a superb writing instrument, highly suitable for everyday use. Platinum's 18k solid gold nibs also serve as excellent starting points for many of our exclusive nib customizations, which give added flair and distinctiveness to your writing on the page.
Silver powder, color urushi lacquers, and transparent suki-urushi are all used to realize the evocative motif of this pen. The time-intensive process of painting and polishing multiple layers results in average production times of a year or more.
The pen is provided with a decorative paulownia softwood presentation box decorated with kanji-style calligraphy. A stringed pen pouch with a cloud-shaped clasp is also provided, along with starter ink cartridges and a complimentary converter for the use of bottled fountain pen ink. The taste and beauty of the packaging adds to the value of this pen both for collectors and as a lovely gift item.
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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.. |