Pentrace East: Japanese Pen Links

Pentrace East’s list of Japanese fountain pen makers, shops, forums and personal sites, last updated in November 2004 and checked again in October 2026.

Links checked Oct. 15, 2026. A link that still works goes to the site’s current address. One that no longer works goes to a copy saved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which may be incomplete. Most of these sites are in Japanese.

See also the English-Japanese Buyers-Sellers Lexicon and the rest of Pentrace East.

Makers

• Sailor: still online, in Japanese. The old English export page has gone.
• Pilot (English): still online, now a global landing page. Pilot Japan is still online too.
• Platinum (English): the old address has gone; Platinum’s own site now has an English section.
• Nakaya (English): still online, with a new English page. Nakaya in Japanese.
• Hakase: still online.
• Kawakubo: gone; the domain is parked (archived copy).

Shops

• Eurobox: still online.
• Pen Boutique Shosaikan, Aoyama: still online.
• Ueno Ameyoko Marui: the shop’s page no longer loads (archived copy).
• Juzen-sha: gone with Nifty’s member pages (archived copy).
• Fullhalter: gone with J:COM’s member pages (archived copy).
• Maruzen: the English store list has gone (archived copy). Maruzen is still online.
• Seikatsusha: gone (archived copy).
• Pensite: gone (archived copy).
• E-shop Morita: still online.
• Buneido: the Rakuten shop would not load from outside Japan (archived copy).
• Okahisa Pen Gallery: the site no longer loads (archived copy).
• Pen-House: the site blocks visitors from outside Japan, so it couldn’t be checked (archived copy).

Forums

• Japanese Pen Board: an English-language forum for Japanese pens, created and kept by Ron Dutcher. Gone (archived copy).
• Mannenhitsu Danwa Shitsu (Fountain Pen Chat Room): gone (archived copy).
• Tenma’s BBS: gone (archived copy).
• Mannenhitsu no page no keijiban (Fountain Pen Page Message Board): gone; the domain is parked (archived copy).

Personal sites

• Mannenhitsu no Sasoi (Invitation to Fountain Pens): gone (archived copy).
• Michan no Michi Michi Ki (Written Records of Michan): gone (archived copy).
• Tenma’s Web site: gone (archived copy).
• Nawa-san’s Fountain Pen page: gone with GeoCities Japan, which closed in 2019 (archived copy).

Useful Japanese pen sites today

• Ginza Itoya, Tokyo: the century-old stationer, with a fountain pen floor.
• Nagasawa, Kobe: the stationer behind the Kobe ink range and Sailor-made shop editions.
• Kakimori, Tokyo: custom inks and notebooks.
• BUNGUBOX, Jimbocho, Tokyo: shop editions and inks.
• Wancher: Japanese urushi and maki-e pens, in English.