Sailor King of Pen Battle of Itsukushima LE pen and box details

[jandrese]

This is the incredible Sailor King of Pen Battle of Itsukushima LE in full focus stacked macro glory. The artist is Ikki Moroiki and the total number of pens is 33. The presentation box is also incredible in black lacquer and maki-e. Details of the maki-e on the box are shown below. 

 

8E7EBA7F-D2BE-4748-B5AF-EFB645A9EBC9 by Ja Ja, on Flickr

 

4FDBB95A-F8C8-4497-8026-D63CF7B90898 by Ja Ja, on Flickr

 

358CEAD5-FDD5-4C92-9B49-AE9CCEC83717 by Ja Ja, on Flickr

 

 

[A Smug Dill]

That is stunning! Thanks for sharing the photos.

 

Now that, to me, is a worthwhile limited edition pen from Sailor. I'm just so tired of Sailor's mass-market ‘limited editions’ that do little more than just mixing-and-matching or colour-blocking different plain resin components of its standard pen models. At least make a special, short production run resin that, once the stock has been depleted, would be too much trouble or too costly in set-up to reproduce in a second batch! Of course, it's preferable that the limited edition is not only limited to using here-today-gone-tomorrow stock of raw material, but relies on labour-intensive craftwork from artisans who may not remain in the manufacturer's employ, or be available to accept Sailor's commission, all the time.

 

[Chi]

Thank you for sharing.

Both the pen and the box are serious work of art. Just gorgeous.

[tubular]

I love these!  They look so alive and so spatially real!

[whichwatch]

Truly beautiful pen!  I haven't been the same since you posted your Namiki Coral and now you add this?  Oh my!

[kimpossible]

What a pen! It's really nice to see Sailor upping their game!