Kobe Onomatopoeia Ink fukufuku

Custom brown 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.

Fuku-fuku (ふくふく) doesn't have an English counterpart that we would consider a sound; it represents the expression of doing things softly.