Our favorite Hobby Stationery Box magazines just arrived 🙌The March volume 53 is on the left and special fountain pen ink edition is on the right. In the special edition, the magazine selects over 2000 colors that it has featured over the years since it's first issue in 2004. In 2004, there were only 230 ink colors featured in the magazine, and sixteen years later, the magazine has cataloged over 2000 colors and has tried it's best to represent the color as true as possible. Every color is swatched in this edition and the first page features a comprehensive chart...

This week we are very excited to start featuring Platinum — one of the big three Japanese fountain pen brands among Pilot and Sailor. We are clearly having way more Sailor currently 😂 but it’s a milestone for us to be able to cover the popular pens from all three brands. In the photo are Platinum Century 3776, Sailor 1911 Standard and Pilot Custom 74 🖊

Platinum is another brand that we’ve always wanted to add to our collection. This week, we are slowly adding a few of Platinum’s iconic pens. Here’s the first one — Preppy. Since its launch in 2007, Platinum's Preppy fountain pen has become one of the most popular entry level fountain pens available today with 10 million pens sold worldwide! It's easy to see why this is a popular choice as a first fountain pen for so many. With its approachable, friendly and colorful design, and Platinum's own "Slip and Seal Mechanism" that employs a spring in the cap to force...

Happy May! But where did April go? Is anyone else feeling like that? Despite how it feels, looking back now, we realize we’ve actually done a lot and added a lot of new stationery this month! And together with Soraya @sorayadesignsthings , we have been working on improving our website, making things more easily searchable, re-writing descriptions and re-taking old photos. It’s a slow and steady process but we are chugging along! With all this time at home, we have also been exchanging some letters with friends, finding new ways to keep in touch with loved ones, giving ourselves something to look...

Pilot Multi Ball is a special pen that has been around for a while. The current version is a redesign released about 10 years ago, and it’s a modest looking pen with great applications. The pen is water-based pigment ink. It writes smooth, the body has a rubber grip, and it looks just a regular gel pen. However, the pen comes with a special ink, “M Ink”, which allows it to stay on smooth surfaces such as metal, glass and plastic. For our shop, we like to use it on washi tape. Many gel pens don’t write well on washi...

This new Shikiori series is inspired by Japanese fairy tales that take place in four different seasons. Shikiori is a well-known multi-series by Sailor and Sailor has released many Shikiori series in sets of fours. And these are the newest Shikiori series. From left to right are spring, summer, fall and winter. The story behind Dragon Palace represents spring, with an image of jewelry/jade box. Vega represents summer, with an image of deep blue milky way that Vega travels through in the sky. Princess Kaguya represents fall, with an image of bright red cloth worn by the Princess. Grateful Crane...

Kadokeshi is a Japanese combination of the words, corner (kado) and eraser (keshigomu). The 28 corners of this eraser ensure that there is always a sharp corner and straight edge for precise erasing. Designed by Hideo Kambara, the Kadokeshi eraser is both aesthetic and practical. This eraser was included in MoMA’s 2004 “Humble Masterpieces” exhibition and now exists as part of the Museum’s permanent collection.

Happy Earth Day everyone! Since it’s Earth Day, we wanted to highlight companies like Uni for continuing to innovate and reinvent great stationery by making them more sustainable and recyclable! Last September, Uni Mitsubishi released their Limex Ballpoint pen. This new material, Limex, is mainly made of limestone that can be found in natural supply around the world, and is a highly recyclable and sustainable paper- and plastic-alternative. The Uni Limex is essentially identical to one of Uni’s classic ballpoint pens, the Boxy 100 that was released more than 40 years before and became very popular in Japan. Just like the original...

We just finished one more ink guide yesterday and this new series is Nagasawa Kobe Ink, a collaboration between Nagasawa and Sailor. Nagasawa stationery in based in Kobe, Japan, and founded in 1882. The whole series has 74 colors, and in the US, there’s 26 colors available currently. It features local views and places around Kobe city to tell the stories of Kobe in its colorful way. Thanks to quarantine, we get to finish a lot more ink guides that would have taken us months to finish : ) Here's some inks that we added during quarantine, with total of 66...

Hi friends! Soraya here from Yoseka Stationery. I've been at home writing and embroidering but I've been missing the store so much! Read on to learn about how I've been using letter writing to stay connected with my loved ones.  Working as a graphic designer and embroidery artist had turned my hands into keyboards and sewing needles. “I have to write more,” I would say to myself as I picked up my phone and fired off multiple emails. The feeling of pen to paper started feeling foreign to me, almost like a child holding a crayon for the first time....