Established in Japan 1902 Kuretake and their subsidiary brand ZIG manufacturers a wide range of quality marker pens for illustration, art and calligraphy. The company’s first product was sumi ink for traditional Japanese brush lettering and painting. And inthe early 60’s Zig Kuretake developed their first pens. Today Zig Kuretake continues to leverage expertise in ink production but is also famous for their variety of Japanese brush pens and their classic Zig Illumigraph and Posterman marker series.