Lately, I’ve only been using disposable ballpoint pens, but I’ve started wanting to have one favorite pen of my own. When I was in middle school, I took shūji lessons using this kind of ink-based pen, and the writing feel is completely different, isn’t it?

For my father’s 77th birthday celebration last year, I gave him a Montblanc ballpoint pen. I actually have quite an attachment to pens myself. (Later I found out—much to my shock—that my father had received the exact same pen from the company he retired from about 20 years earlier 😂😂)