Akashiya Sai Watercolor Brush Pens - Soft Japanese Traditional Colors (15 Colors)

Soft, subtle, and charming—this set of 15 watercolor brush pens is inspired by the gentle side of Japan’s traditional color palette. Featuring delicate shades like sakura pink, sky blue, wisteria, and silver mouse gray, each color offers a calm and refined expression perfect for soft illustrations and elegant lettering.

The set includes a refillable water brush pen, making it easy to blend and create dreamy gradients with just a touch of water. These brush pens use water-soluble pigment ink, ideal for pastel-themed artwork, floral motifs, and gentle watercolor effects.

Handcrafted in Japan by skilled artisans with over 300 years of brush-making tradition, the pens come in a beautifully illustrated case featuring a sweet bird among soft blossoms—perfectly matching the delicate tones inside.

If you love soft colors and graceful effects, this adorable set will add a lovely touch to your creative time.

Explore our Japanese brush pens, a harmonious blend of tradition and ease.

Details

• Quantity in Pack: 15
• Length (Pen): 6.7" L × 0.35" D (17 cm × 0.9 cm)
  
• Weight (Pen): 0.3 oz (9 g)
  
• Tip Length: 0.4" (0.9 cm)
  
• Tip Type: Brush
• Ink Type: Water-based dye ink
• Refillable: No (disposable type)
• Brand: Akashiya
  

The Story of Akashiya

Akashiya was founded in 1716 in Nara, the city where Japanese brushmaking has been practiced for over a thousand years and which remains the country's main center for handmade fude (writing brushes). The workshop spent its first two centuries making traditional calligraphy and painting brushes (bristle bundled, glued, and shaped by a single artisan from start to finish), and that one-brush-one-maker discipline is still the standard for every piece in the line today.

Over the past century Akashiya has extended that craft into adjacent territory: the Sai brush pen series, fountain-pen-style brush pens with their own ink reservoirs, watercolor brush pens in traditional Japanese color sets, sumi-e and nihonga brushes for fine detail and broad strokes, and even makeup brushes. The common thread across all of them is the way the tip holds and releases ink, which is the part of brushmaking that takes the longest to learn and is hardest to mechanize.

What you are holding is a small piece of a 300-year continuous practice, made in the place where Japan's brush tradition began.