The Life Vermilion notebook is a simple yet high-quality notebook, both inside and out. It is a 5mm grid notebook with a vermilion coloured grid on cream coloured paper which is what makes this pocket notebook unique. Notebook Life Vermilion N68 Brand Life Size A6 Binding thread binding Cover cardstock softcover Layout 5mm grid Pages […]
KOKUYO began as a supplier of account ledgers, and we continue to this day to manufacture and sell a variety of office paper products, as well as stationery products designed to provide ease of use for everybody in office and school environments. Their most popular/well-known product is the “Campus” range of paper and notebooks. The […]
Jour & Etoffe is a brand of japanese designed canvas & paper products produced by United Bees. You can find their products in their online store. I have not seen these products available anywhere else yet. The notebook I purchased is pictured below. I find the B5 awkward on my cluttered desk as it is […]
SUMI-E is the Japanese word for Black Ink Painting. East Asian Painting and writing developed together in ancient China using the same materials —brush and ink on paper. Emphasis is placed on the beauty of each individual stroke of the brush. The Chinese speak of “writing a painting” and “painting a poem.” A great painting […]
In the 2015 A to Z Challenge I wrote about the Hobonichi for the Letter H. Here I am once again writing about the Hobonichi – as it is not possible to do an A to Z of Japanese Stationery without saying something about the Hobonichi. Last time round we covered the history and a […]
Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation film studio based in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan. Spirited Away is the highest grossing anime film by Studio Ghibli grossing over US$290 million worldwide and is probably the most popular outside of Japan winning an academy award in 2003. So surprisingly when I was stationery shopping it was clear that […]
A fudepen (筆ペン) is a Japanese writing instrument. It consists of a brush-like pen nib with a refillable or replaceable ink reservoir that writes like a Chinese ink brush. The ink used is unlike traditional calligraphy ink. It is designed to adhere well to modern paper, while traditional ink only adheres well to rice paper. […]
A shūgi-bukuro (祝儀袋) is a special envelope in which money is given as a gift at weddings in Japan. It is very common in Japan to give a gift of money at weddings. The giver inserts the money into a shūgi-bukuro on which they have written their name. The shūgi-bukuro is handed to the receptionist […]
Delfonics first started with a diary you could enter your own date into in 1987. In 1988 Delfonics started to design and produce dated diaries. In 1995 Delfonics opened its first store in Shibuya in Tokyo in 1997. The Rollbahn I purchased was a diary and notebook combo which includes: Overview 2016 Calendar Year Planner […]
Chiyogami This is a traditional type of Japanese paper used for Origami. Chiyogami is patterned and brightly coloured and was originally used for folding small paper objects like dolls or boxes. Two different groups of papers can generally be distinguished: Komon is the appellation for the single-coloured, small and often geometrical patterns (ko = small, […]