To provide a writing utensil which shows a design effect and cuts a production cost with simple manufacturing procedures.

This writing utensil has a head plug or a tail plug made of a spring, so that the production cost is reduced and the secure fixing of the plug to a body barrel is achieved. In addition, this writing utensil shows excellent low-cost design characteristics with a metallic color on account of the fabrication of the metallic head and/or the tail plug. Besides, the production cost of this writing utensil is cut by constituting the parts of the head or tail plug and a rebounding part in one piece since its parts having functions such as preventing a refill for the writing utensil to be fixed from becoming loose, rebounding for the feed of the refill and shock-absorbing during writing, are excluded.