Sumi-e

These sleek and elegant Calligraphy brushes have tips of coarse, stiff horse hair that retain a crisp touch. Each brush has been made to suit the demands of various styles of brush calligraphy and Sumi-e, an ancient style of painting renowned for its...

Liquid Sumi ink is made from the same high-quality vegetable oil soot as Sumi sticks, except in a convenient liquid and bottle form that eliminates the need for grinding ink sticks. Dries to slight sheen and absorbs into paper slightly. This ink's...

These handmade, professional brushes are designed for creating smooth washes with a variety of media. They contain ultra-soft sheep’s hair bristles, stitched into a bamboo piped handle. The brushes are adjustable in that they can be permanently...

Hosho Sketch Paper Pads are rice paper pads made of Hosho fibers, a highly refined paper noted for its thickness, strength, and fluffiness. Known for its resistance to shrinkage, this paper is ideally suited as a Sumi-e student sketch pad. 9" x 12" pad...

This traditional Chinese pigment ink has a dense black formulation that makes it suitable for all ink work, painting, drawing, and calligraphy. Ultra Black is a very dense, black, water-resistant ink that contains extra carbon and works on porous...

Yasutomo Sumi Watercolors are made with high quality pigments formatted for traditional Sumi-e painting. They're also good for rubber stamping, calligraphy, watercolor, card-making and paper crafts. Comes in 2.75" diameter round ceramic...

Bamboo Reed Pens are an old world tool that can bring a new look to anyone's work. These specially selected, strong bamboo shafts are traditionaly used for making black-ink line drawings and gestural strokes with liquid Sumi Ink. They can also be used as...

The Yasutomo Artist Ink Stick is an artist quality ink stick that produces deep black tones and subtle variations of grey when ground with water. For more than a thousand years, the method of making Sumi sticks has remained the same. Soot from pine or...

The Series 150 Bamboo Brush has natural hair with a long tapered point used for watercolor, Sumi painting, calligraphy and sketching. Plastic ferrule and bamboo handle. Round Bamboo Brush available in 6 sizes.