Nakaya Portable Writer ShobuDeep purple enjoys a regal reputation as the earliest dyes painstakingly derived from a rare sea snail. The color was reserved for the use by royalty in Europe as it was too expensive for others. Now it is possible to have this color in a Nakaya Portable Writer fountain pen in an application of many rich deep layers of urushi purple lacquer. This Nakaya fountain pen is made of hard rubber or ebonite that is meticulously coated with urushi, a material