{"product_id":"red-marbled-urushi-lacquered-rollerball-pen","title":"Red Marbled Urushi Lacquered Rollerball Pen","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Red Marbled Urushi Lacquered Rollerball Pen is a handmade Japanese rollerball pen turned from solid keyaki (Japanese zelkova) wood and finished in layered colored urushi lacquer with sprinkled tin powder. It takes a standard International rollerball refill, so it writes wet and smooth and stays a working pen for years rather than a display piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToshiyuki Tatsumi builds the surface from many coats of colored urushi (iro-urushi), sprinkling fine tin powder between the layers so the colors break and drift into each other. Here rose and deep red break into drifts of pale grey and cream, with tin powder scattered through them like frost. Every barrel is finished individually, so no two carry the same pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenuine urushi lacquer hardens with humidity instead of drying like paint, and it keeps changing after it leaves the workshop. In his own note Tatsumi writes that the surface wears down very slightly with use, so the coats laid underneath begin to show. He builds the pen expecting this, and it is worth using rather than keeping in a drawer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same pen is made in \u003ca title=\"Blue Marbled Urushi Lacquered Rollerball Pen\" href=\"https:\/\/komorebistationery.com\/products\/blue-marbled-urushi-lacquered-rollerball-pen\" style=\"color: rgb(18, 102, 56);\"\u003eBlue\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca title=\"Translucent Brown Marbled Urushi Lacquered Rollerball Pen\" href=\"https:\/\/komorebistationery.com\/products\/translucent-brown-marbled-urushi-lacquered-rollerball-pen\" style=\"color: rgb(18, 102, 56);\"\u003eTranslucent Brown\u003c\/a\u003e. Urushi artist Kyoko Sasaki paints her own \u003ca title=\"Green Mosaic Urushi Lacquered Rollerball Pen\" href=\"https:\/\/komorebistationery.com\/products\/green-mosaic-urushi-lacquered-rollerball-pen\" style=\"color: rgb(18, 102, 56);\"\u003emosaic urushi pens\u003c\/a\u003e on octagonal barrels turned by Tatsumi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDetails\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: 5.7\" × 0.51\" (14.5 cm × 1.3 cm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrip: 0.35\" (0.9 cm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeight: 1.3 oz (38 g)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefill: standard International rollerball. Schmidt 888 F fitted; Schneider Topball 850, Hauser bill 707 SF and Pilot LP2RF gel also fit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaterial: keyaki (Japanese zelkova) wood, natural urushi, tin powder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrigin: Japan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtist: Toshiyuki Tatsumi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNote: Each pen is finished by hand, so color and pattern vary from the photographs. Colored urushi can leave a trace of pigment if the barrel rubs against paper. Wipe with a soft, dry cloth, and keep away from water, heat, and long direct sunlight. In rare cases natural urushi may cause a skin reaction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Story of Toshiyuki Tatsumi\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToshiyuki Tatsumi works alone across a range that usually belongs to two separate trades. He turns the barrel and he lays the lacquer, so the shape is decided with the finish already in mind instead of being handed to a lacquerer afterwards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe trained at the Kyoto Traditional Arts and Crafts College, then spent years in a karaki sashimono atelier in Kyoto, joinery in dense hardwoods where a joint either closes or it does not. He later joined the restoration of CYNARA, a wooden yacht launched about a century ago, building the deck hatches and much of the interior below deck. That work had to survive salt water and another hundred years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe calls each pen one of a kind and means it literally. The layering of color and the drift of tin are worked out on the barrel itself rather than planned in advance, so no two come out alike. He chooses keyaki for its density and its grain, and finishes so the wood carries the surface instead of disappearing under it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toshiyuki Tatsumi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52691719356699,"sku":"TTM2","price":373.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/0333\/2635\/files\/red-marbled-urushi-lacquered-ballpoint-pen-komorebi-stationery-3.jpg?v=1785306236","url":"https:\/\/komorebistationery.com\/products\/red-marbled-urushi-lacquered-rollerball-pen","provider":"Komorebi Stationery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}