JAPANESE KANZASHI HAIR ACCESSORIES.I am not an expert on Japanese hair combs nor do I read Japanese! However I have traded some very beautiful examples in the six years I have been selling on eBay and have...
Recently I have learned that there is a group of scam artists out there passing off fake Dunhill Namiki pens to the Japanese pen community. I guess this was inevitable.Wherever there is value and money,...
There seems to be some confussion about the Japanes "Kao" (red seal) and the Mei (usual artist signature). In Japan, maki-e artists are nearly always part of a guild. If they are rogue artists, then they would...
No two writers are the same. That is a very simple self-evident sentence, but when it comes to pens it becomes very important. Pilot pens realized this back in the 1920’s as they tried to move the traditional...