Handmade brushes with a particular taste for drawing
Each brush tip is carefully handcrafted by brush craftsmen.
The brush can be used to draw boldly and delicately with the touch of a brush, and by moistening the tip with water or paper in advance, soft shades of gray can be freely expressed.
If there is "SAI", it is your atelier!
It can be used for watercolor painting, sketching, illustration, sutra copying, and many other purposes!
They also make great gifts, and are very popular with people from overseas!
Rich and delicate traditional Japanese colors
These atmospheric colors faithfully reproduce traditional Japanese colors.
Deep crimson, soft peach, and delicately nuanced flaxen, these colors reflect the nature and culture of the four seasons, bringing rich expressiveness to your work.
→SAI Coloring Brush Pen 5 Color Set
→SAI Coloring Brush Pen 20 Color Set
Product Features
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Easy color mixing
By applying colors directly to a palette, etc., and mixing them with water, different colors can be mixed together to create any color.
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Soft shading
By lightly dipping the brush tip in water and applying it to paper while it is still wet, you can easily enjoy natural shading.
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Beautiful gradation
A soft gradation can be expressed by moistening the paper in advance and applying colors before the water dries to spread the blotches.
How to use AKASHIYA "SAI"
5-color set Color variation
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Spring (Set A)
Pink, madder, pale orange, yellow ocher, green blue
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Summer (Set B)
Cerulean blue, indigo, yellow green, navy blue, brown
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Autumn (Set C)
Cerulean blue, indigo, yellow green, navy blue, brown
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Winter (Set D)
Rose red, magenta, dark green, gray, black
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Luster ( Set E)
Cherry blossom, rose, orange, citron green, ever green
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Elegant (Set F)
Pale coral, ecru beige, moss green, cyan, light purple
20 color set Color variation
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Set colors
Pink, madder, pale orange, yellow ocher, green blue, cerulean blue, indigo, yellow green, navy blue, brown, vermilion, yellow, ultramarine, purple, burnt umber, rose red, magenta, dark green, gray and black ink.
How the Akashiya Brush is made
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1.Combing out
Comb through the hairs, remove all the wadding at the roots, spread them out on a board, and mix them well.
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2.Firing
Sprinkle the ashes of rice husks, heat them over a charcoal fire, degrease them to improve the ink content, and then wrap them in deerskin and rub them to straighten out the frizzy hair.
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3.Claw plucking
Align the tips of the hairs by pulling them out little by little with fingertips, without using tools.
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4.Aligning the tips
Place the hairs in a group on a metal plate, tap the plate from the tip of the hairs, and use the vibration to align the hairs toward the tip of the hairs.
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5.Reverse hair removal
Using a blade called a hansashi and your fingers, you pull out the reverse hairs, in which the tips and roots are reversed. This is the first step in hair selection.
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6.Cutting
A brush cannot be made from a single type of hair. Therefore, various types of hairs with different properties are cut into long and short lengths: 1, 2, 3, and so on, according to their role in the brush.
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7."Hirame" Matching
The hairs cut into small pieces are called "Hirame", and the matching of each "Hirame" is called "Hirame"-matching.
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8.Mixing and kneading
The various types of hair that have been cut into small pieces are kneaded together several times to ensure that there is no unevenness or unevenness.
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9.Core setting, “Shin-Tate"
According to the diameter of the tip of the brush to be made, the bristles are passed through a small tube called a "Koma" to determine the thickness of the bristles. This is called “Shin-Tate".
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10.Coating the top bristles
The top bristles are spread thinly and wrapped around the core.
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11.Bending
A burning iron is applied to the end of the ear to harden the base, and then it is tied with hemp thread. This completes the brush.
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12.Glueing
To make a hardened brush, the ear is dipped in glue solution and allowed to soak into the inside of the brush.
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13. Shaping the brush
While squeezing out the glue with a thread, shape the brush tip.
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14. Completion
The process is completed when dry.
Q&A
Do you have refills for it?
Brush pens are single-use type and no refills are available.
How long does it last?
It depends how often you use it. For your reference, the sample lasts for 4 to 5 months.
What kind of ink does it contain?
It contains water-based dye ink.
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