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Namiki Yukari Nightline
Moonlight
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If you feel like you've seen the Namiki Nightline
Moonlight Maki-e before, you're probably thinking of the Namiki
Nightline which premiered on our website in 2001 (and has since
been discontinued by the manufacturer). This Nightline Moonlight
has a completely different feel. Instead of the busy purple
abalone skyline of the Namiki Nightline this pen is quieter,
with calming blue refractions of light from the steady threads
of abalone..
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Maki-e, the traditional Japanese art of lacquering, is used to apply patterns that are first drawn on a surface with urushi (sap from a Japanese lacquer tree). Silver and colored pigments are then applied to the painted surface while the urushi is still moist. The layering of abalone into the black lacquer on this Nightline Moonlight pen conjures up the image of clear moonlight casting its flickering, silver light over a dark rippled lake. Movement is created by the thick black lacquer semi-circles that flow through the abalone like a current. |
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