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Platinum Maki-e #87 Moon and Rabbit
Platinum Maki-e #87 Moon and Rabbit
The Platinum Maki-e #87 Moon and Rabbit fountain pen offers Maki-e style design at a highly affordable price. Made available with your choice of 18k semi-soft nib and featuring hand-applied gold and silver leaf, this pen can be a terrific introduction to the world of Japanese writing instruments.
Our complimentary nib tuning services adjust pressure and ink flow to your personal writing preferences, and our optional nib customizations add additional character and distinctiveness to your writing on the page. We are an authorized Platinum dealer.
Kanazawa leaf is a traditional craft centered in this coastal city on the west coast of Japan, very close to the urushi craft center of Wajima. Kanazawa has been renowned for its gold and silver leaf since the 16th century, and since the Meiji Period from 1868 to 1912 has accounted for virtually all gold and silver leaf production in Japan.
The Moon and Rabbit is a frequent motif in Japanese art, with the rabbit associated with peace, prosperity, and long life. In some folkloric tales, the rabbit lives on the moon, where he bakes rice cakes and brews an elixir of immortality. On this pen, Kanazawa gold leaf has been used for the grasses and a golden moon, while silver leaf is used for the rabbit itself.
Each pen arrives in an appropriately themed black and gold presentation box and includes a starter ink cartridge as well as a complimentary ink converter provided by us. The pen can fill using any bottled fountain pen ink, and can also use Platinum brand disposable ink cartridges.
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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.. |