Thread: Japanese Natural $$$

Does anyone have experience with or comments on this hone ?

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Finishing stone is good quality, "or fast 研Geru" "I honed to sharp edge in how Yoshi Kiyoshi" "reduce the decline of the wheel, you can keep the plane" will be judged on three points. Meet this condition is to maximize the ability of the knife, "Motoyama if Masazumi Makoto wheel". In Kyoto, in natural stone finish that is produced only mine 礦山 Nakayama, Tenka Musou, and its quality has been praised since ancient times. Nakayama 礦山 mining origins, about a year ago now goes back to 800. Until the middle of the Kamakura and Muromachi period, was the purveyor of the shogunate and the wheel house 門外不出 as emperor. In the long history of the celebrated sword has also raised numerous polishing, wheel if Masazumi Makoto Motoyama. A razor blade when better-looking, tight-fitting like a familiar face and abrasive blade can scrub a knife to loosen up. Rapidly than any other stone finish is superb and precise cutting edges to form a clear-cut.
By the way i forget to mention very important factor

Price / 3,150,000 yen=
35,031.14 USD
This is really FUN

Bwahahahahah! That rock costs more than my car did! More than my wife makes in a year! Good lord, what could be so special about it?!?

Originally Posted by JimR

Bwahahahahah! That rock costs more than my car did! More than my wife makes in a year! Good lord, what could be so special about it?!?

Probably one of the very few superb stones that come form that particular mine?

I believe this is one of the shops that deals directly with the (Hatanaka) family that owns the rights to the Nakayama mine. Buying from this shop guarantees that you will get a genuine new Nakayama hone from the Hatanaka family stock.

Whatever, the stone is ridiculously expensive and the stamps are different from the stamps on my Nakayama. Old_School once posted the stamps that you should be looking for when buying a Nakayama for Kamisori. I cannot find them on his site anymore.

Originally Posted by Kees

Whatever, the stone is ridiculously expensive and the stamps are different from the stamps on my Nakayama.

Stamps can be forged, what you need to look for is to get a stone from a reputable seller. In Japan the skin on the back is a very important feature, people that have deal with stones for many years can tell you which mine the stone comes from just looking at the skin. There are fakes with dyed skin too. Certain stones that have what is considered the right color, which also indicates how fine the stone is, and are among the finest can be really expensive. The size adds to the price too.

The store in the photo is in Kyoto and is the outlet for the entire source of new Nakayama stones to the world. The owner is Hatanaka-san and any new stone on the market will come from him, and any old stone on the market came from either Hatanaka-san or his father or from Kato-san who retired in the late 1960s. The stamps on the stone in the photo are the current "boutique" marking used only by Hatanaka-san.

I do know that So and his dad have stones that would cost a fortune if they'd actually think of selling them, which they don't

Here is a link to a larger photo of the stones on the shelf. There is probably well over $1,000,000 sitting there. I handled a $75,000 stone myself. www.thejapanblade.com/images/hatanaka_toishi.jpg