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product_id: 8979405
title: "Bill Buchman \"Zen\" Sumi Brush – Classic 3 – Traditional Size – Japan"
brand: "bill buchman "zen" brushes and "zen" pens"
price: "¥249"
currency: JPY
in_stock: false
reviews_count: 8
url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/8979405-bill-buchman-zen-sumi-brush-classic-3-traditional-size-japan
store_origin: JP
region: Japan
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# Durable Design Top Quality Popular Size Bill Buchman "Zen" Sumi Brush – Classic 3 – Traditional Size – Japan

**Brand:** bill buchman "zen" brushes and "zen" pens
**Price:** ¥249
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 🖌️ Elevate Your Artistry with Every Stroke!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Bill Buchman "Zen" Sumi Brush – Classic 3 – Traditional Size – Japan by bill buchman "zen" brushes and "zen" pens
- **How much does it cost?** ¥249 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Why This Product

- Trusted bill buchman "zen" brushes and "zen" pens brand quality
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## Key Features

- • **Built to Endure:** Engineered for longevity, this brush is your reliable artistic companion.
- • **Perfectly Sized:** The most popular brush head size for versatile artistic expression.
- • **Exceptional Point:** Crafted for detail, ensuring every stroke is a masterpiece.
- • **Unleash Your Creativity:** Experience the precision of a top-quality brush designed for artists.
- • **Artistry Meets Tradition:** Handmade in Japan, blending traditional craftsmanship with modern needs.

## Overview

The Bill Buchman 'Zen' Sumi Brush is a classic, traditional-sized artist's brush from Japan, renowned for its top-quality construction, popular size, exceptional point for detail work, and durability, making it an essential tool for both amateur and professional artists.

## Description

Sumi Brushes now offers an exquisite new series of 3 exceptional Bill Buchman “Zen” Japanese Sumi brushes: the “Classic” series, hand-made by Japanese master craftsmen. They are made of carefully chosen finely pointed horse hair with durable lacquered wooden handles. This Artist Quality “Classic” series of Sumi brushes features standard size and smaller size brushes that are especially well suited for detailed Sumi and watercolor painting and for fine Eastern calligraphy. Sumi brushes of such uniquely fine quality have generally been unavailable in the US until now and are sure to please both the experienced Sumi artist and the newcomer. All who explore the wonderful world of the Sumi brush will find that it naturally promotes an artistic mood of tranquility and creativity. These Sumi brushes offer the beginning, intermediate and advanced painter both great control and expressivity due to their ideal level of flexibility: the firmness is sufficient to encourage great accuracy and control while the softness and play promote a natural expressivity not found in Western style brushes. They may be used with all free flowing water media: watercolors, gouache, liquid acrylic, acrylic gouache, acrylic and “tech” inks, Sumi and India inks, liquid watercolors, and all other water media. This “Classic” Series - Number 3 – Regular Size brush, the most popular size, is neither too big nor too small and is very suitable for all calligraphy and Sumi painting usage. Brush dimensions: Total Length: 10 ¼ “; Shaft: 8 ½”; Head: 1 ¾ “; Head Diameter: 3/8”. Sumi Brushes also offers a series of considerably larger Bill Buchman Zen Sumi brushes that are especially well suited for the bold expressive strokes of contemporary painting and calligraphy. See these and also Bill’s DVD series on figure drawing and abstraction, all on .

## Features

- Excellent all around artists brush
- Top Quality
- Most popular size brush head
- Excellent Point
- Made to Last

## Product Details

- **Color:** Multicolor
- **Material:** Acrylic
- **Size:** black
- **Brand:** Bill Buchman "Zen" Brushes and "Zen" Pens
- **Paint Type:** Acrylic

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of my three favorite brushes for Sumi-e
*by M***Z on March 2, 2025*

Holds its point, has not list a single hair in more than a year.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Handle cracked after 3 months of use
*by G***J on February 2, 2023*

I have owned many brushes over the years and now I use two only. This Brush and the Bill Buckman Zen Sumi Sensei 1. This brush is capable of stoke widths of all sizes in Sumi-e painting including fine line strokes and could essentially be the one brush fits all.I would give it 5 stars, however after 3 months of use with proper care, the handle has cracked above the bristles. While I can repair the brush myself I am disappointed this has happened in such a short period of time.I have recommended the Zen Sumi-e Classic 2 as well as the Zen Sumi-e - Sensei 1 to my students I will hesitate to do so until I see that my student's brushes do not encounter any cracking.As I said, it's a superb brush, but the cracking is a huge disappointment.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Truly "Zen"
*by M***T on December 7, 2014*

This brush is fantastic and is one of my most prized possessions. It has a really nice weight and feel and the bristles are very fine on the outside, and stiffer in the middle. It can do big swaths of color or ink and also very fine details. At first I used it for ink only, but then I tried it with watercolors, and now its the only brush I use.It really is aptly named because when you use it you will feel "zen", probably because you have to hold it so steady in order to make a line of consistent thickness. If you are rich enough and plan to paint with multiple colors or inks, you should get a few of them so each can hold a different color while you paint.

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*Store origin: JP*
*Last updated: 2026-02-10*