These Kuretake Karappo pens make writing with your favorite ink color a breeze! The pens were originally created to go with Kuretake's "Ink Cafe",  a set of customizable and mixable ink colors.  The tactile process of filling each pen with ink is both mesmerizing and fun. Have your favorite ink bottle at the ready, dip the provided core inside the ink, wait until the core soaks it all up (all while staring in awe at this relaxing and surprisingly quick process), plug the pen with the seal and your new Karappo pen is now ready to write! To keep track...

Lennon Tool Bar - 涌泉/yong quan. This special edition of Lennon Tool Bar comes in light clear blue, and is inspired by the blue color of medical masks and serves as a tribute to frontline workers. In late February/early March, the frontline medical workers of Taiwan were experiencing high stress as they were confronted with COVID-19. The timing of this might seem early to the US since many states, NYC included, didn't have stay-at-home orders in place until late March. Since that time, frontline workers all over the world have witnessed first hand the devastating toll of COVID-19, sacrificed and...

In June, we added lots of fun stationery and made some great updates to our website as we have more time to improve. We also chatted with April at the Stationery Cafe about stationery and life. If you haven't checked it out yet, take a listen! The last two weeks of June, we started doing curbside pickup, and this month we will continue to do curbside only. You might have already noticed the changes we made to our website. One of the fun thing you could do is for example, filter specific ink color under fountain pen ink collection. We also added a...

Today we are featuring Nakamura Printing x Kleid Flat Notes. Nakamura Printing is a family business started in 1938. Being in a declining industry, Nakamura Printing has been trying out different ways to create new notebooks. In 2014, they came up with a new way of notebook binding to allow every page of the notebook to open flat. Normally, to achieve opening completely flat, notebooks are made with multiples of tiny bundles of paper, which are also known as signatures. A standard signature represents large sheets of paper sewn together in 4, 8 or 16 sheets, folded in half as...

A couple of weeks ago, Neil and I were interviewed by April @penguinscreative on The Stationery Cafe podcast! For those who don't know, The Stationery Cafe podcast was first started in October of last year and it is a weekly podcast, where April and Phyllis @misslingbloom talk about all things stationery. April and Phyllis are big journalers, planners, watercolor artists and creatives, and we are always amazed at how well informed they are about the newest stationery, trends and news in the stationery world. On the podcast, they also interview many people in the stationery community and that is where we came in! ...

Feels good to be back with curbside pickup and very happy to see many familiar faces 😊 Starting this week, you will be able to place your order through our online store and pick up your stationery the following day we are open. Our store hours for curbside will be Thursday, Friday, Saturday 2-5pm!We are so excited to be able to take our first steps towards reopening and looking forward to seeing many of you who we have not seen in months! Of course, things are not going to be the same and we want to ensure everyone’s health and safety...

Hi everyone! Soraya here. I've been spending so much time decorating letters and packing orders with washi tape these last few weeks. There's something so peaceful about picking a washi, ripping a piece off, and gently setting (and resetting!) it onto a surface. I'm surrounded by so much washi tape, both here at home and at Yoseka, that I wanted to learn all about its origins. I hope that this brief and fun history of washi makes you love and appreciate your rolls of washi tape just a little extra! Washi tape is a durable, tearable, waterproof, biodegradable, reusable, and colorful type...

Shachihata Iromoyo/Traditional Japanese Colors series. Shachihata started making stamp pad since 1925. These 24 colors feature traditional Japanese colors and they debuted in 2019 December at the Bungu Joshi Haku. The lid of this series is not hinged so it could completely detached and you could use the stamp base more freely with greater precision. The base of the pad is also designed to be stackable for easy storage. The oil-based pigment ink, and the surface of the pad is designed to make full contact with a stamp. It produces a sharper and brighter result than a standard ink pad....

As June 1st approached last week, at one point I looked up from my planner at Neil and said to him, incredulously, "just like that, we are halfway through 2020." I'm sure many of us had this thought. It is really hard to believe that we have spent so much of this year locked away, not seeing our families, not catching up with neighbors and friends in the shop, not eating at our favorite restaurants and not living our normal lives.Beginning tomorrow, June 8th, the city begins to take its first steps into reopening with resumption of construction, manufacturing and...

In May, we were busy adding lots of new stationery to the online shop and working on some new exciting projects. We added new fountain pens and inks from Platinum, a brand we have been waiting a long time to work with. They are one of Japan's "big 3" fountain pen makers along with Sailor and Pilot, and we are proud to say you can now find them all at Yoseka! We also finally added Sailor Pro Gear Slim Mini fountain pens and worked on an exciting collaboration with Google NY to curate Pen Pal Kits for their employees.  Items in the...