Shi-shi no ko otoshi

NAKAYA Fountain Pen Traditional entertainment series
"Shi-shi no ko otoshi"　　

Background of "Shi-shi no ko otoshi"
(A mother lion pushes her children to the bottom of a ravine)

The lion is the King of beasts.
A mother lion pushes her children(leopard) off from the cliff to the very deep bottom of a ravine and she raises
only those who can crawl up.
We NAKAYA expressed this famouse Japanese legend into our Maki-e fountain pen in the demand
of the foreign customers.
The long and slender shape of the fountain pen assist our Maki-e artists to express the legend by
drawing lion, cliff and lion's children crawled up scene in a artistic way.

Technique

Main tecqunique is "Gin-yuji" method.
"Gin-yuji" is the technique which heaping up by silver.
The detail is piled up many times many times with the lacquer. (production period eight months)
The rise up parts are decorated with Maki-e art.
Wave and other silver colored places are finished with genuine platinum.
Due to the curved surface of a fountain pen, the piling work is very serious and hard.
Pilling up in the direction of 360degree along the phase of fountain pen, alone takes half a year.

Front side

Zoom picture of mother lion.

Wonderfully finished up waterfall scenary.

Cap　

Design: Sketch

Price: 7,500$(JPY945,000)

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