The Nakaya Portable Cigar Cat With Wool Balls utilizes intricate, time-intensive chinkin technique to realize a lyrical motif. Gold powder and gold leaf are among the precious materials used on this pen, which usually requires up to a year or more to be produced.

Our complimentary nib tuning adjusts optimum pressure and ink flow to your personal preferences, and our optional nib customizations can add to the character of our writing on the page and can also make this pen a valuable tool for calligraphy and other skilled handwriting techniques. We are the sole Nakaya retailer in the English speaking world.

Chinkin technique has a history stretching back hundreds of years, and the skilled artisans in Wajima have here used it for an affectionate and colorful portrait of a family cat. Gold powder is used to fill in the carefully hand-etched chinkin lines, and a rare use of color is made for the yarn and wool balls.

Nakaya pens use a convenient cartridge-converter filling system - a reusable converter, provided by us free of charge with your purchase, can allow for the use of any bottled fountain pen ink, and the pen can also use Platinum brand disposable ink cartridges.

Each Nakaya pen ships in a special softwood presentation box which includes a fabric pen kimono and starter pack of ink cartridges along with the converter.