Thread: Stamp not seen to often on a Nakayama Suita Kiita Hatanaka

I found this Nakayama with two stamps, one I have seen but the other I had not. In researching I only found one example of this stamp. It was posted by Alex Gilmore in a thread he had showing examples of stamps that Hatanaka-san had used in the past.
It was realy hard and my tomo's was not playing to nice with this new stone. Living in the Bay Area, I knew I had to pay Alex a visit for that perfect tomo for it. I called him and he said come on over. The next day I visited Alex I had a first hand look at Alex doing his thing. He is a wealth of knowledge and fine gentleman. He tested my stone right in front of me and in three sets of ten and a set of circle strokes was hitting hh3 and hh4's. He rated the stne at lv5++ bordering 5+++, very fine and very fast and very consistant. I was extremely happy on cloud nine ,so much so I forgot to ask him what the kanji said on the stone.
He let me see some of his beautiful examlpes of Jnats and I was in awe as he has so many different fine examples in each catagory. It is like going to Jnat school and a museum all in one place.
I would like to state that I can atest to his integerty as a good person,gentleman and honesty. While I was there looking at his vast asortment of Jnats I spoted a huge nice piece of tenjyo nagura. I have botan and mejiro so I asked what he thought of adding a nice big tenjyo to my progrestion. He looked at me kind of funny and said "dident you see what your stone just did. It took my razor from bevel set to finish very quickly.You dont need it." It was a couple hundred dollars that he could have easily sold me but did not because I did not need it. Wow, how many retailers would actually do that. Class act in my book! Now the pics! If anybody can tell me what the kanji says I would be very greatful.