Pencil - Recycled HB - 9800EW
The 9800EW pencil is the eco variant of Mitsubishi Pencil Company's long-running 9800. The body is made from recycled joint-constructed wood, left minimally processed and finished so the natural character of the material shows through. Against the painted and lacquered pencils that dominate the category, it reads as quietly different: warm grain, no varnish, the print sitting directly on the wood.
The matured micro graphite lead is smooth and dense, which makes it reliable for everyday writing, clear enough for notes and annotation, and consistent from point to point. The 9800 has been made and used in Japan for decades as a dependable everyday tool, and the EW continues that without pretension.
- Grade: HB
- Barrel: Recycled wood, natural finish, hexagonal
- Length: 176mm
- No eraser
- Origin: Made in Japan
Please note: The price is per pencil. For boxed quantities, please contact us.
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MITSUBISHI PENCIL CO., LTD. is a Tokyo-based writing instruments company with no connection to the Mitsubishi industrial conglomerate. Mitsubishi Pencil registered its three-diamond trademark in 1903, ten years before the Mitsubishi industrial group registered theirs. The three diamonds is a family crest, and the company's claim to it predates the name it is more commonly associated with.
The company was founded in 1887 by Niroku Masaki, inspired by Western pencils he first encountered at the 1878 Paris World Fair. It began as the Masaki Pencil Manufacturing Company in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and was renamed Mitsubishi Pencil Co., Ltd. in 1952. In 1958 it launched the uni pencil - named for "unique" and the French word for "smooth," with a logotype designed to be "a house that warmly wraps people up."
The uni brand became the company's corporate identity and today appears on the full range of its products. Mitsubishi Pencil launched Japan's first ballpoint pen in 1959, and has continued to set ballpoint benchmarks ever since - among them the Jetstream ink system, which became one of the world's best-selling ballpoint formulations, and the Jetstream Edge, which pushed the technology to its present limit. In 2024 the company acquired the German writing instrument brand Lamy, extending a global presence that now spans over 100 countries.