Sailor Manyo Sumire - 50ml Bottled Ink nordic blue for over one hundred years

for over one hundred years now

Behind the sophisticated and reserved presentation

KWZ Flame is ideal for writing and drawing

Made of feather-light robust aluminum

Creating an Urushi lacquer fountain pen is an exacting and complex process because the lacquer must be carefully applied to the pen barrel in numerous hand painted layers

Sailor Manyo Sumire - 50ml Bottled Ink nordic blue for over one hundred yearsThe flower Viola mandshurica, also known as Sumire in Japan, is a light purply blue flower that is commonly found along roadsides and houses. The Sailor Manyo series is based off of the Man'ysh, a Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves. It is the oldest and one of the most revered collections of classical Japanese poems ever compiled. A great number of the poems mention various beautiful flowers from Japan.