Kobe Onomatopoeia Ink Koro Koro

Custom orange fountain pen ink made for the Nagasawa Pen Store in Japan.

This new INK is inspired by onomatopoeia.

The Japanese language has a large inventory of ideophones, more commonly know as onomatopoeia, or sound symbolic words. Onomatopoeia can be used to convey the sounds we hear in a day-to-day setting or applied to add a poetic effect to our life. We use onomatopoeia to express ourselves just like we use the language of color to describe our emotions.

Koro Koro is a Japanese onomatopoeic expression for the sound of something spherical, fat or small “rolling” or “tumbling.”