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Akashiya Mini Ume Flower Paint Palette

Sale price$3.00 USD

This compact, flower-shaped mixing palette is the perfect companion for Akashiya Sai watercolor brush pens. Simply dip the brush tip into water placed in the palette to create soft tones and subtle gradations in a single stroke. You can also blend different Akashiya Sai colors directly in the wells to make custom shades, then dip your brush into the new color to write or paint.

With shallow, petal-shaped wells that keep colors cleanly separated and easy to manage, this palette is lightweight, reusable, and simple to clean. It enhances the expressive range of Japanese brush pens and adds a quiet, traditional charm to your creative workspace.

Explore our Japanese brush pens, a harmonious blend of tradition and ease.

Details

  • Size: 3.3" × 0.4" H (8.5 cm × 1.0 cm)
  • Weight: 0.95 oz (27 g)
  • Material: ABS Resin
  • Brand: Akashiya

The Story of Akashiya

Akashiya was founded in 1716 in Nara, the city where Japanese brushmaking has been practiced for over a thousand years and which remains the country's main center for handmade fude (writing brushes). The workshop spent its first two centuries making traditional calligraphy and painting brushes (bristle bundled, glued, and shaped by a single artisan from start to finish), and that one-brush-one-maker discipline is still the standard for every piece in the line today.

Over the past century Akashiya has extended that craft into adjacent territory: the Sai brush pen series, fountain-pen-style brush pens with their own ink reservoirs, watercolor brush pens in traditional Japanese color sets, sumi-e and nihonga brushes for fine detail and broad strokes, and even makeup brushes. The common thread across all of them is the way the tip holds and releases ink, which is the part of brushmaking that takes the longest to learn and is hardest to mechanize.

What you are holding is a small piece of a 300-year continuous practice, made in the place where Japan's brush tradition began.

Japanese Akashiya Sai watercolor mini ume flower palette in clear plastic packaging with Japanese text label
Akashiya Mini Ume Flower Paint Palette Sale price$3.00 USD

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