Namiki Maki-e fountain pens are created using various types of advanced techniques. The more the lacquer is applied, the deeper the colour becomes and the more the gold and silver powder glows. In a world where beauty is vividly expressed in motifs, these techniques convey tradition.

The Namiki Capless retractable-nib pens combine traditional lacquer art and Maki-e with the modernism of an ingenious mechanism. The Raden technique, with its inlays of tiny nacre fragments, gives them their own special lustre. These pens at the forefront of technology.

The Namiki Capless - Raden. The pearly inner nacre of various shells such as horseshoe and newt crabs, abalone, etc., is detached into thin strips and cut into small fragments that are covered with lacquer to hold them on the pen. The entire piece is then polished to achieve a perfect finish.