The Sailor Specialty Nibs consist of 7 uniquely ground nibs: the Naginata-Togi, Naginata Fude de Mannen, Naginata Concord, Naginata Emperor, Cross Point, Cross Music and Cross Concord. Each has the ability to produce extraordinary variation and different line widths at different writing angles. Each piece of paper in the picture above shows a writing sample produced from just one nib in the series and I hope you can see how dynamic and expressive these lines can be. In this blogpost, we'll be explaining more about the writing experience of each nib within the Sailor Specialty Nib collection. ..... Pictured from left...

Starting 4/20, we will be updating our minimum for free shipping from $40 to $60.Over the last 4 years, we've kept our free shipping at $40, despite steadily increasing USPS postage. Our team has done an amazing job providing superb Yoseka Experience online as well as in-store and we hope you feel our appreciation for your orders each time you receive a package from us. Thank you so much, from Daisy and Neil.Here's our updated shipping rate effective 4/20: Free - Local pickup Free Shipping - $60+ orders $6 Boxed & Insured - For boxing with additional protection and insuring the package versus default mailers. $6...

Last year this time, we announced our 甲 Home Fountain Pen. Last year’s theme, Home, is all about celebrating our home, Yoseka—our business, our community, our team, our dreams, our friendships and partnerships—and so much more that Yoseka means to us. We hope you think of your home when you write with your pens. 
Over the years, our team has grown to a lot more people than just me and Neil, but the heart of Yoseka and our mission will always be to create a space where you can try your stationery out within a community of individuals who share...

Hello everyone and Happy April! It always seems like the first few months of the year come and go so quickly, and it's hard to believe that we are already in April. This year started off with a bang. It may have surprised many of you when we announced Stationery Fest and the truth is we surprised ourselves a little! Two months have gone by now and although it may seem that August is still far off, at this rate, it will be here in no time at all. This past month, we celebrated a major milestone for Stationery Fest by reaching...

New look for our freebie Yoseka stickers! These are round stickers that we include in your online orders - two stickers at random in each order. It was time to add some new designs to represent the completion of the Sailor x Yoseka Origin, Refresh, Home series, and we decided to re-print all the stickers for a fresh look. We selected a few designs from the previous three years, which was so hard to choose! New to the lineup are the 3-pen sticker, the Yoseka Happy Hour Glass sticker, and the “So Casual” ribbon sticker! You’ll also see the Yo,...

Happy March everyone! We've been seeing a lot of spring colors on recently released stationery from the new Sailor Smoothie Pro Gears to Pentel Calme 0.35mm ballpoint pens to the brand new Kaweco Sport Apricot Pearl. Our stationery items sure are ready for the warmer spring weather! A recent trend we've seen in some new stationery products is: PUFFY STATIONERY. Although it's far from being a brand new concept, we've all been having a lot of fun with the new puffy Chewy Bread Sticky Note pads and some new puffy animal stickers by Q-Lia.Aside from the lots of new stationery we've...

We are so happy to announce that our venue is officially booked for Stationery Fest this August 7, 8 and 9, 2024!  Stationery Fest will be hosted at the beautiful Greenpoint Loft, located at 67 West Street, right upstairs from our storefront at 63 West Street.  At Stationery Fest, we will be bringing together stationery brands and working together with these brands to create experiences that will allow you to learn about each brand’s mission and story, and how these are reflected in their products. Through interactive workshops centered around customization, and community-building social events such as meetups, we hope...

Sooo happy to have finally met Bonnie @ghoulishgals this week! This postcard was designed by Bonnie as a school project in Fall 2023. Bonnie combined the prompt, which was to create a promotional poster, with her love of stationery and some favorite items from our shop to make this delightful poster! When she showed it to us, we fell in love with it and immediately dreamt of sharing it with everyone who visited our shop.It is now available as a postcard in our shop so please take one the next time you visit us! And if you shop online, feel free to...

Introducing Melany! Mel joined Team Yoseka in August of last year, right as we were preparing for our biggest Hobonichi release yet! She had about two days to learn our whole organizational system and by the time Hobonichi Day came, she was able to help our team work on all the orders we got and she’s been here for every major release we’ve had since she started. I can say with confidence we wouldn’t have been able to do all we did last year without her 🩷Mel was actually born and raised in Sunnyside, Queens and she first learned about...

At the end of last year, as we prepared for 2024, Neil and I thought about the experience of our shop, which all comes from how we first started Yoseka in 2017. At the time, we had an idea to introduce Asian stationery to people here in the US. Having grown up in a stationery store in Taiwan, Neil’s concept of stationery was so different from the stationery available here. There is a lot of individuality reflected in stationery when you grow up in Asia because there are so many choices and every category of stationery brings more to choose...