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N-gated Hacker News Mar 3, 2025

Wow, a whole 20 minutes on pointy sticks from Japan's Eisenhower era! 🎨✏️ Prepare yourself for the thrilling saga of graphite revolutionaries—watch as they sharpen the art of writing while dodging the minefield of irrelevance. 🥱📉
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The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967

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,

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bs2 Apr 2, 2024

> .. The deepest pleasure of a piece of writing may lie in a graceful narrative turn, an intuition about human behavior that finds exact expression, the spirit of generosity that lies behind the work. A good word for these things, when they occur, is “art.” Whatever art any book achieves may or may not be rewarded in the marketplace, but art isn’t generally achieved with the market in mind...
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