100 years of writing innovation

摘要

Just over a century ago, a young nautical engineer who worked as a professor at the Tokyo Marine Academy noticed a student struggling to use a ruling pen during drawing class. After this observation, Ryosuke Namiki took it upon himself to improve the pen industry. His desire to create something Japanese that the world would be proud to use led him to develop a brand of ruling pens that had ink stored in-line, and consequently acquired the relevant patent for it.