Finally Got My Hands On The Kyuseido Akari! (And The Shinya)

So after waiting for around two years, I finally pulled the trigger on picking up the Kyuseido Shinya at the 2026 DC Pen show, and now I find myself just a few weeks later with a second Kyuseido Akari that was released at the 2026 SF Pen show. I was lucky to have a friend be able to pick one up for me and I am glad that I did. Both of these pens are functionally the same with the pump piston filling system, but between the different looks and the different nibs, it is two different writing experiences in a good way.

In this video I show the packaging that the Kyuseido pens come in, and I show how the pump piston filling system works with a new bottle of Taccia Ainezu ink on some Crena Lightning Thick paper. I show some writing from the gold tone 14K nib with the F nib on the Akari as well as from the Shinya filled with Vanness Hummingbird Green ink with the CY needlepoint grind on it.

https://www.kyuseidotokyo.com
https://www.instagram.com/kyuseido/

Inks
https://vanness1938.com/products/taccia-ukiyo-e-ink-hiroshige-ainezu
https://vanness1938.com/products/kobe-hummingbird-ink-with-vanness

Link to my DC show video
https://youtu.be/7VZtOk6ab5Y

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