The Kyuseido Kakari FS Hoshikage Lost Planets takes its inspiration from the infinite celestial bodies that form our universe. Hoshikage translates into Starlight from Japanese, and the silver powder sprinkled deliberately in a spiral pattern that swirls around the 9 raden planets conjures the romance of twinkling stars beyond our known galaxies. The different sizes of raden circles represent planets near and far from us, playfully shifting in color and size depending on the way we look at them.

Kyuseido has collaborated with Urushi Notes to produce the Hoshikage Lost Planets. Normally, raden is extremely colorful and bright. This is a natural phenomenon that occurs when light hits the shell and refracts the colors of the shell into our eyes. For this pen, we instead opted to have raden inlaid into transparent urushi, which lacks the opaque backing that raden is traditionally done on and allows light to partially pass through the shell. This reduces the refracted colors of the shell and gives the raden a holographic look. The potential of this pen only reveals itself when filled with ink, which gives the raden the opaque background needed to fully refract the colors of the shell into our eyes.

The Kyuseido Kakari FS Hoshikage Lost Planets is the embodiment of how heritage meets modernity at Kyuseido. Using the Kyuseido Kakari FS as a base for the urushi treatment, Kyuseido and Urushi Notes blend the aesthetic of the futuristic and elegant design of the Kyuseido Kakari FS and the traditional beauty and warmth of urushi lacquer. The result is a boundary pushing design that takes advantage of the Pump Piston Filler’s full body ink capacity and raden’s light refracting properties. While the design is stunning as it is, its true potential is when ink is drawn into the pen barrel to create an opaque background for light to refract the colors of the raden in all its glory.

This will not be a numbered edition but rather a limited production edition and will continue to be produced in limited small batches. Please note that these images shown here are representative photos of the pen, and there will be slight variations in colors and patterns between the different editions.