A favorite amongst Japanese pencil aficionados, Kita-Boshi is a 5th generation pencil maker. Like many a thoughtful manufacturer, it's a company whose ethos can be read in its aphorisms - from the founder, “A pencil sacrifices itself to serve people. Both humans and pencils need cores,” to the current president, "You can't write with a pencil unless you sharpen yourself. No matter how good the core is, if you don't sharpen it, you can't dream." Pencils made from highest-quality cedar and cypress. Each pencil writes about 31 miles (longer than a marathon!) Made in Japan.
Very dark green lacquer. Gold embossing on one side; silver embossing on reverse. Hexagonal. Box of 12. Please choose HB, B or 2B.
The degrees of hardness of pencils are roughly divided into three groups:
- B stands for "black". These pencils are soft.
- H stands for "hard".
- HB stands for "hard black", which means "medium hard".