It’s here (just in time for planner season)! After a couple months spent doing lots of research, designing, and waiting, our planners have finally arrived! This is the project that grew out of the idea we pitched to you all a few months ago—to create a planner sampler with various monthly and weekly layouts, so users can experiment with different planning styles and formats and find what works best for them. Our YOSEKALAB Two-Month Weekly Planner has 3 monthly spreads (each with a different design) and 10 weekly spreads (6 different designs), making it perfect to use as a short-term or...

Neil and I are here in the first episode of Catching Up since our pre-orders arrived and shipped out last week. Many of you may have heard this already, but there was a production error with our Home fountain pens and they were sent out with a different color gold trim and nib than was pictured in our product photographs. As of now, we are still waiting to hear from Sailor for our final course of action, but we do know that Sailor will be repairing any pens that anyone would like to send back for the repair process. Please...

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for all your friendly messages of support and kindness that have poured in over the last few days. They have been a comfort to all of us during quite an interesting week. The good news is that we will have an update on how Sailor will be handling the production error very soon so stay tuned. Now for something really cool…Yoseka will be closed on Friday, 8/18 to Sunday, 8/20, and will re-open at normal business hours starting Wednesday, 8/23. We will be hosting a private *secret* event that we are SO excited about...

You may have heard from our earlier posts that we discovered a problem with our Home pens. Yesterday afternoon, we began to receive emails from a handful of customers who had just received their pre-orders and had noticed a discoloration in the trim and a difference in the nib. In all of our photos and videos featuring the Home pen, we had used the prototype model we received from the Sailor factory because the pens had not been produced yet. This model (and our design) featured a bicolor nib and standard gold trim, but all the Home pens we received...

As many of you know, we released our 甲 Home Fountain Pen on pre-order back in April of this year and at the same time, decided to release our previous Origin and Refresh fountain pens from our 2021 and 2022 releases.This year’s theme, Home, is all about celebrating our home, Yoseka—our business, our community, our team, our dreams, our friendships and partnerships—and so much more that Yoseka means to us. We hope you think of your home when you write with your new pens. We are happy to announce that your pre-orders are now on their way to you with...

As a small token of gratitude, we will be including a special thank you goodie bag in all of your pre-orders. This goodie bag contains an assortment of fun stationeries designed by Ashley and May to go with our release. Seeing each piece arrive over the past few months has been a treat for us and trust me when I say there have been many squeals of delight unboxing every piece that will be going into these goodie bags.To anyone who has collected all three of our released pens since 2021, we can’t thank you enough for your continued support...

Everyone, welcome Daisy back from Japan! In this episode, Daisy and Ashley discuss Daisy's trip to Japan, our new Yoseka Green Energel Philography pen, and lots of newly added stationery! This week, we have the 2023 Summer Limited color inks from Lennon Tool Bar, two new sets of Sailor Ink Pens, and the Nagasawa Original 3776 PenStyle Silhouette in Gray/Ivory. Special thanks to everyone who gave Daisy helpful tips for traveling with a toddler! :)

Some exciting things recently! First, Neil and I are off to Japan on a family trip with Jacob in a couple of days. These last few days have been a whirlwind of packing, list-making, watching YouTube videos with titles like "how to travel Japan with a toddler" and Googling questions like "how to rent a stroller in Japan." Spoilers, I've just decided to bring our own! (Shout out to everyone who commented on our last Catching Up YouTube video with tips for traveling with a toddler--I read every single one of them and got the amazing idea to bring Jacob his...

In this video, Team Yoseka shares how we've been using and keeping up with our planners so far in 2023! At the end of last year, we made a Techo Kaigi video sharing our planner picks for 2023, so check that out if you'd like to see the "part 1" to this Planner Update. We hope this video will expand the ways you thought a planner could be used, or simply let you know that you're not alone in the struggle to stay consistent with a planner. How have you been keeping up with your planner this year? Let us...

Founded in 1911 in Kure City, Hiroshima, Sailor is Japan's first fountain pen manufacturer and today continues to be one of three major Japanese fountain pen companies next to Pilot and Platinum. Over the years at Yoseka, we've spent a lot of time talking about Sailor as a company and their special fountain pens, which we happen to love. Today's blogpost is going to be on Sailor's top of the range flagship model, their King of Pen fountain pen. You may have heard of this Sailor model and perhaps you've seen this huge fountain pen and may be wondering what...