Maki-e A Story Waiting to be Written

The sign of vivacity growth of maki-e art has inspired Alberto Gerosa to reseach on it and published a new book to help us under this ancient Japanese arts of lacquering, and maki-e technique.

Unlike the "Four Season of Namiki" by Christopher, Alberto focus on the maki-e art, and not brands specify.

This 200 pages book accompanies the reader on a journey of discovery of countless extraordinary fountain pens with  a good representatives maki-e fountain pens from some of the big three Japan pens maker such as Pilot-Namiki, Sailor and Platinum-Nakaya, as well as makers from various corners of the planet. Just to name a few of the big boys, Caran d'Ache, Pelikan, Waterman, Loiminchay and others.

Rumours, Rumours ... New Namiki Book ... Updates

It has been a long while since the last Namiki book published by Julia and Stephen, titled "Namiki - Art of Japanese Lacquer Pens". Christophe Larquemin, a Frenchman, has given us a new book on Namiki. If you are a Namiki collector, you might want to consider getting one for your bookshelf. The price of the book is 350 euro/USD475, excluding tax and shipping.

The book comes in French and English version. Both are limited to 500 copy and English 1000 copy respectively.

Currently, the English version of the books is available at Hope(e)Marketplace and Fook Hing Trading at a user friendly price.