Happy June everyone! Summer's finally here :) Along with lots of meals al fresco, refreshing iced bubble teas, blasting the air conditioner in our warehouse and the shop, pistachio gelatos, counting down the days to Stationery Fest, and other summer favorites, our team has also been busy working on lots of things here at Yoseka! (Pistachio gelatos might be more of a personal favorite of mine. What are some of your summer favorites?) Stationery Fest Updates on workshops, apparel and more Our No Ink, No Life bumper sticker for hardcore fountain pen ink lovers only!  Taiwan Earthquake fundraiser at local...

Our team at Lucky Risograph's studio, after taking their Riso Printing Create Your Own Notebook Workshop, which they will be teaching at Stationery Fest. Team members from left to right: Melany, Aysia, Min, Alex, May, Authan, Daisy, Stephanie, Ashley, Susan, Selena, Laura. What a fun time we all had at Lucky Riso's Create Your Own Notebook + Riso Printing Workshop this past week! Amanda, co-founder of Lucky Riso, who was hosting this workshop for us, encouraged our team members to have some analog time so we all sat and cut some scraps of paper to collage with, used crayons and...

We are so excited for our inaugural year of Stationery Fest and are positive that due to everyone's enthusiastic participation, it is going to be an amazing event that will be great for the stationery community. Planning Stationery Fest has been an incredible journey for us and extremely rewarding and of course, there have been challenges and unforeseen expenses along the way.  Your contribution will help us ease the burden of planning Stationery Fest overall. The specific costs we are seeking help with include: permit costs, lowering travel expenses of international exhibitors' flights and hotel accommodations, provision of food and...

Happy May everyone! It's been a month packed full of new stationery, Stationery Fest planning, trying out YouTube videos, and lots of fun in store. Neil and I even squeezed in a short getaway to Montreal with Jacob! Phew, what a month. Here are our highlights from April: Robert Oster Inks now at Yoseka TRAVELER'S Tokyo (sold out via pre-order; will be available again around September)  TWSBI ECO Caffè w/ Bronze Trim Sailor Specialty Nibs Explained Our Team Members' DIY Friendship Pens Newest Team Member, Min's Intro on YouTube Newly added stationery pictured above from clockwise from top left: Mind...

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...