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quill

On-Yomi: カン

Koohii stories:

1) [Katsuo] 24-6-2007(53): How to obtain quills for free: Wait for a misty day, then under cover of the mist creep up on an unsuspecting bird and quickly cover it with your umbrella. The bird will flap around wildly trying to escape and while doing so will shed a number of feathers. You can use these as quills.

2) [mantixen] 29-7-2009(3): The latest quills are feathers with an umbrella-like point that sprays mist you can write with.

3) [timcampbell] 6-2-2009(2): In olden times, lovers used feathered quills to write their names on tree trunks. On misty days they'd have to bring an umbrella to stop the ink from running.

4) [herman] 17-1-2009(1): Why quill? Letter is easier. On a misty day I like to sit down under my umbrella and use my writing feathers (quill) to write an old fashioned letter to my pen-pal.

5) [endote] 16-8-2012(): Flowing a mist of ink from an umbrella-pointed feather, a quill.

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