Sailor Pro Gear Princess Raden

Sailor Pro Gear Princess Raden

Princesses have been loved and admired throughout the ages.
Sailor Pen is releasing a collection of fountain pens with designs inspired by princesses from Japanese fairytales.
They are truly unique fountain pens featuring iconic motifs and colors from each fairytale, intricately expressed with beautiful mother-of-pearl and “yubi maki-e” on the barrels and caps.

In this Professional Gear series, there are Raden (mother-of-pearl) parts on the barrel and cap.
Raden artwork is usually used for very expensive maki-e pens and it’s quite unique to put Raden on resins.
The Shimmering Raden parts firs the theme of ‘Princess’ the elegant and dazzling.
Raden artwork can show several colors, depending on the type of shell or the technique used.
This time, different shell colors were chosen for each design. Hope you can enjoy differences.
Illustrations of the Yumi Maki-e also took a lot of trial & error. I re-drew the illustrations until I was satisfied with it and made the sample for three times until the face of the Uguisu bird looked lovely.

This Sailor Pro Gear collection consists of five fountain pens: Princess Uguisu, Princess Ochikubo, Princess Shirotae and Princess Koto

Princess Uguisu: Princess Uguisu is a bush warbler, living disguised in human form.
One day, she receives a young visitor and asks him not to open the chest of drawers, but curiosity tempts him to take a peek. With the promise broken, she says she must leave, and she flies off in her avian form.

Princess Ochikubo: Princess Ochikubo lived with a wicked stepmother and mean stepsisters, having only a handmaiden on her side.
The kind handmaiden arranges for the princess to meet a major general, and they fall deeply in love. The couple marry and live happily ever after.

Princess Shirotae: Once there lived a giant white carp, larger than a human being, and it would always disappear mysteriously from the marsh at the end of iris season.
The carp was actually Princess Shirotae, who had thrown herself into the marsh after failing to avenge her father’s death.

Princess Koto: A fallen Heike clan princess was washed ashore and saved by seaside villagers.
To thank them, she played a “koto” harp beautifully each day on the beach, but soon fell ill and passed away. Ever since, the beach sand became musical sand, and the beach was named “Beach of Koto”.

Sailor Pro Gear Princess Raden - details:
Brand: Sailor
Model: Pro Gear Slim
Collection: Princess Raden
Type: Fountain Pen
Nib: 14k Gold available in F and M
Filling system: cartridge/converter (included)
Material: PMMA Resin with yubi maki-e and raden
1 Shikiori Ink 20ml (included)
1 Converter (included)