As a manufacturer specializing in art brushes, Shougetsudo has been producing a variety of brushes for Japanese-style painting and ink painting, such as “Tsuketate Fude”, “Saishiki Fude”, and “Anime Fude”. We also produce brushes used for traditional crafts such as ceramic painting, dyeing, and batik. They can also be used for watercolor painting.
Choryu（長流）
This brush is a type of Tsuketate-Fude and is used for painting with sumi ink. It is a typical brush used for Suiboku-ga (ink painting). The Choryu brush has a particularly large head and is very good at containing ink, allowing for a wide range of expression in ink painting.This brush can be used in a variety of ways, from basic to applied use of the brush in ink painting.
Maruyama-Fude（円山筆）
This brush is a type of Tsuketate-Fude. It is slightly smaller than the Choryu brush and is often used as a brush for practicing ink painting.This brush, which bears the name of the Maruyama School, one of the leading schools of Japanese painting founded by Maruyama Okyo in the mid-Edo period, is easy to use for beginners in the study of Japanese painting and ink painting.
Gyokuran（玉蘭）
This brush is the Tsuketate Fude. This brush is one size smaller than the Choryu, but it holds water well and is easy to control, making it easy to use for beginners.
Oronpy-Fude（オロンピー筆）
This brush is a type of Tsuketate-Fude. This brush is made from the hair of a weasel family animal called the pahmi (Oronpy). The bristles are strong and taut, and the entire head has good elasticity, making it possible to draw unique lines in ink painting.
Nyosui（如水）
This brush is a type of Tsuketate-Fude. This brush is made almost entirely of soft goat hair, which is well absorbed by water and produces soft lines. It has a completely different writing style from the elastic Choryu and Maruyama Fude.This brush is often used for ink painting, but it is also a favorite brush for line drawing, coloring, and blurring in Japanese painting.
Tsuketate-Fude（付立筆）
This brush is a type of Tsuketate-Fude used in ink painting. This brush is slightly smaller than the Choryu brush and is easy to handle. It can also be used for coloring. It is recommended as a brush for beginning Japanese-style painting and ink painting.
Sanba-Fude（山馬筆）
This brush is a kind of Tsuketate-Fude.This brush is made from the bristles of a deer family animal called Sanba (English: Sambar). This brush is very resilient and suitable for bringing out the rough expression in ink painting.
Unpitsu（運筆）
This brush is the Tsuketate Fude. This brush is specially designed to meet the basic brushwork (Unpitsu) of Japanese and ink painting. We manufacture brushes for beginners to practice and brushes for advanced artists using Itachi hair.
Kotsugaki（骨書）
This brush is a kind of Senbyo-Fude(line drawing brush). This brush is used for drawing outlines in Japanese painting and ink painting. It is made of itachi (weasel) hair or other bristles with good bristle tips, and is suitable for drawing various contour lines.
Senbyo-Fude（線描筆）
This brush is a type of Senbyo-Fude(line drawing brush). This brush is used for painting Japanese-style paintings. The hair of the pahmi (Oronpy) is used for this brush, and the elasticity of the tip is strong, making this brush suitable for drawing strong lines. It is also suitable for drawing unique lines in ink painting.
Sokumyo（則妙）
This brush is a type of Senbyo-Fude (line drawing brush). This brush is made almost entirely of soft goat hair, which allows it to hold water well and produce soft lines. It is a favorite brush for line drawing, coloring, and blurring in Japanese painting.
Menso-Fude（面相筆）
This brush is a type of Senbyo-Fude (line drawing brush). This brush is used for Japanese-style painting and ink painting when detailed drawing of people and animals is required. It is made of weasel hair or other bristles with fine tips that are very thin and sharp. It is also suitable for detailed coloring and pattern drawing of crafts such as ceramic painting and maki-e (gold-relief lacquering).
Anime-Fude（アニメ用筆）
This is a brush developed exclusively for animation background art in collaboration with art directors who support the best animation production companies in Japan, which are concerned with hand-drawn expression. This is a brush of the highest quality, produced with the combined skills of our brush craftsmen in order to meet their advanced drawing requirements.
Sakuyo-Fude（削用筆）
This brush is a type of Senbyo-Fude (line drawing brush). It is made of weasel hair or other hairs with good quality tips. The brush is thick from the middle to the base and has good water retention ability, while the brush tip is thin, so it can continue to draw lines. It is a versatile brush that can be used for everything from fine to bold lines, and even as a coloring brush.
Kindei-Fude（金泥筆）
This brush is a type of Senbyo-Fude (line drawing brush). It is made of raccoon dog hair and has elasticity from the tip to the middle of the brush, making it suitable for drawing lines with sticky gold or silver (white) mud. It is used for drawing gold lines on Japanese paintings and crafts.
Hakkei（白圭）
This brush is a type of Senbyo-Fude (line drawing brush) made of Shirotamage (white cat hair). The tip of the hair has a unique elasticity and is suitable for line drawing, coloring details, and dotting. It is used for painting Japanese-style paintings and ceramics.
Saishiki-Fude（彩色筆）
This brush is used to apply paint for Japanese-style painting. This brush is also used for Koroku Tensai, in which colors are applied inside the contour lines. It is recommended as a paint brush for watercolor painting as well as for Japanese paints such as iwa-enogu (mineral pigments). It can also be used for various purposes such as painting ceramics.
Renpitsu（連筆）
This brush is a Saishiki-Fude brush with brush tips arranged horizontally. The E-Bake (E-bake) brush often used in Japanese painting has a thick tip and can be used to paint a wide area firmly, but this Renpitsu brush has a thin tip and can paint a wide area softly like a coloring brush.
Kumadori-Fude（隈取筆）
This brush is for blotting ink or paint. The tip of the brush is round and slightly hard, and it is characterized by its ability to hold a large amount of water. It is used in "Kumadori," one of the expression techniques of Japanese-style painting, to add shading to previously painted colors by adding a lot of water to the brush, or to blur previously painted colors by rubbing the brush without water to create a three-dimensional effect.
Bokashi-Fude（ボカシ筆）
The brush is made of stiff bristles. By rubbing the brush with paint and rubbing it with the Bokashi Ami, the paint can be scattered and blurred beautifully. Also called Tataki Fude, this brush is used in the Sunago technique of scattering gold leaf in Japanese paintings, for example, by rubbing or tapping the gold leaf in the Sunago Dutsu with this brush to scatter the gold leaf finely. This brush is also used to blur previously applied paint and gold leaf by rubbing or tapping with this brush.
Setsugetsuka（雪月花）
This brush is designed for use in Etegami(picture letters). This brush is made of black raccoon or horse hair and has a good elasticity from the tip to the midpoint of the brush. With its long tip, it can be used as a brush for Japanese calligraphy as well as for ink painting.
Etegami-Fude（絵手紙用筆）
This brush is a type of Senbyo-Fude (line drawing brush). This brush is specially designed for drawing Japanese picture letters. It is designed to draw unique lines when drawing outlines and characters. In addition to this brush, we also make coloring brushes and kumatori brushes for picture letter.
Rouketsu-Fude/Etsuke-fude（ローケツ筆/絵付筆）
This brush is used for batik (batik dyeing), in which melted wax is applied to cloth. The brush is designed so that the wax does not drip off and stays on the tip of the brush. It can also be used as a brush for making Dami (濃み/ダミ)when painting with Gosu(呉須).
Poster-Fude（ポスター筆）
This brush is a flat brush made of goat hair. This flat brush has a softer drawing feel than nylon flat brushes. In addition to its use in Japanese painting, it is suitable for posters and other designs, and for decorating letters such as Gothic typefaces.
Haiga-Fude（俳画筆）
This brush is a type of Tsuketate-Fude. This brush is specially designed for drawing simple pictures (Haiga) to accompany haiku. It can be used for a wide range of purposes including ink painting, line drawing, and coloring.
Japan Brand Fude（JAPANブランド筆）
Using the traditional brush manufacturing techniques of Kumano, the brush capital of Japan, this brush is designed to make drawing easy for those who are not accustomed to using brushes. It is suitable for drawing alphabets with many small curves.
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art brushs(画筆/Gahitsu)
We make brushes for Japanese-style painting, ink painting, and animation background art, as well as brushes for wax resist dyeing and traditional crafts, and brushes for letterpress painting.
paint brushs (刷毛/Hake)
We make a variety of brushes such as picture brushes, water brushes, and blotting brushes used for Japanese paintings, etc., coloring brushes for dyeing, stencil brushes, woodblock print brushes used for prints, and Sanskrit brushes.