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Product name: Writer Arai-shu（洗い朱）　[no.02006]
Price: US$700
Total weight: 22.0g
Body weight: 15.0g
Total length: 130.0mm
Barrel length: 116.0mm
Max diameter: 15.0mm
Barrel material: Ebonite
Description: In order to create the smallest size of our fountain pens, take the roof like design that is slightly pointed tip, different from the portable size and long size design.
The compact fountain pen with excellent portability for memo pads, notebooks, and etc.

The color "Arai-shu" is a different kind and quaint brighter vermilion from "Shu (vermilion)". "Arai-shu" means a light vermilion color because the color becomes lighter after washing the dyed cloth. The color can be said close to orange red. The color range is wide, from a vermilion like reddish color to a salmon pink kind of color are called "Arai-shu".
It is one of the colors that became popular in the late Edo period with the revival of Yamato-e.

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