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Akashiya Sai Watercolor Brush Pens (20 Colors)

Sale price$46.00 USD

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A perfect introduction to the world of Japanese brush pens, this 20-color set offers a well-balanced selection of traditional hues—from soft pastels and vivid tones to earthy and cool shades. Whether you're new to watercolor brush pens or expanding your creative tools, this set has everything you need to start your artistic journey.

Each pen is filled with water-soluble pigment ink that blends smoothly with water for natural gradients and soft washes. The flexible brush tips allow you to move easily between fine lines and bold strokes, making them ideal for both lettering and illustration.

Handcrafted in Japan by skilled artisans with over 300 years of brush-making tradition, this set brings together ease of use, quality, and cultural beauty in one elegant package.

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

Details

  • Quantity in Pack: 20
  • Length (Pen): 6.7" L × 0.35" D (17 cm × 0.9 cm)
  • Weight (Pen): 0.3 oz (9 g)
  • Tip Length: 0.4" (0.9 cm)
  • Tip Type: Brush
  • Ink Type: Water-based dye ink
  • Refillable: No (disposable type)
  • 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 brush pen set with twenty colors in cardboard packaging box display
Akashiya Sai Watercolor Brush Pens (20 Colors) Sale price$46.00 USD

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