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Luckily for all artisans – both scientific and virtuosic – stationery experts over in Japan have mastered the art of crafting ingenious pens and pencils with which to perfect your skills.

The Coupy-Pencil 100 Colors Black Package Edition will sell for 16,500 yen ($150). Reservations for the set will be accepted at stationery shops in Japan and online.

But can that possibly compete with the thrill of shopping for stationery in the weeks leading up to the new school year? Pencils, erasers, ballpoint pens - it was always fun to start a new term ...

Its products are popular among stationery enthusiasts. Fountain pens are not in Mitsubishi Pencil’s product lineup. The company, which dates to 1887, is Japan’s first industrial pencil producer.