Thread: J-Nat club

Kuro Renge Suita

Originally Posted by rideon66

Kuro Renge Suita

What mine is this stone from?

Originally Posted by mainaman

What mine is this stone from?

It was stamped Shobudani.

Originally Posted by Fikira

Thanks for sharing your immense amount of knowledge, your devotion, willingness, enthousiasm, helpfulness,... And thanks for sharing my page!

https://historyrazors.wordpress.com/...atural-stones/

Great page, love the maps. thanks

Got a stone and I am curious about the kanji. I played with the filters and that's the best I could do to enhance it. Any idea what it says?

Thank you in advance

Originally Posted by alex1921

Got a stone and I am curious about the kanji. I played with the filters and that's the best I could do to enhance it. Any idea what it says?

Thank you in advance

Hi, for now I guess:

山城國眞正本山??
Yamashiro kuni shinsei Honyama: Authentic Honyama from the Yamashiro area

??精撰 (read R>L) = Seisen = selected
優 = Yū = excellent

To be continued!

(眞 = wrong, see edit a few posts further)

Originally Posted by alex1921

Got a stone and I am curious about the kanji. I played with the filters and that's the best I could do to enhance it. Any idea what it says?

Thank you in advance

Hard to tell but this stamp looks a lot like the Seki City stamp used in the knife industry there. The stone looks like Wakasa to me.

Originally Posted by alex1921

Got a stone and I am curious about the kanji. I played with the filters and that's the best I could do to enhance it. Any idea what it says?

Thank you in advance

For the moment I'm sticking to:
(Read from left to right & above to below):

山産山
? 正城
証本國

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山城國産正本山?証 = Yamashiro kuni-san Honyama - ? - shō:
Authentic Yamashiro area product, Honyama, warranted

大西精選 = Ōnishi Seisen = (careful) selected by Ōnishi

優 (in circle) = Yū = excellent

Apparently MICOR was a retailer/seller/producers (around 1950 - 60's) of
straight razors, (stainless) kitchen knives & forks,... and ... stones

Stainless forks:







Straight razor (kamisori grind):







Stainless kitchen knife:




By the way, apparently the listing of this stone stated that the seller bought it
around 昭和40年 (=1965) and (if I translated correctly) he said to have bought
it for the price of about half a year salary

A day or 2 and i can submit my application to join the j nat club
in the mean time i can drop a jpeg from the internets while i wait for DHL

Originally Posted by Fikira

By the way, apparently the listing of this stone stated that the seller bought it
around 昭和40年 (=1965) and (if I translated correctly) he said to have bought
it for the price of about half a year salary

Yes I pulled the listing up and it translates it as half year salary
Thanks again for all the time and work you put into it.