Published on: 2025-07-06 03:51:33
It was the summer of 1952, and the executives of Tombow Pencil were about to revolutionize the Japanese pencil industry—or, possibly, fall flat on their faces. Hachiro Ogawa, the son of founder Harunosuke Ogawa, was Tombow's managing director, and he had just finished a years-long project, at enormous cost, to make the best pencil Japan had ever seen. An early Tombow HOMO drawing pencil with transparent lacquer. Note the "H.O.P. Product" branding—in the early 1950s, Tombow still printed this ab
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 14:51:33
It was the summer of 1952, and the executives of Tombow Pencil were about to revolutionize the Japanese pencil industry—or, possibly, fall flat on their faces. Hachiro Ogawa, the son of founder Harunosuke Ogawa, was Tombow's managing director, and he had just finished a years-long project, at enormous cost, to make the best pencil Japan had ever seen. An early Tombow HOMO drawing pencil with transparent lacquer. Note the "H.O.P. Product" branding—in the early 1950s, Tombow still printed this ab
Keywords: mitsubishi pencil pencils tombow uni
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