Yes, those dark spots or mottling is not common in mikawa nagura. Yours looks pure!
Cheers, Steve
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Yes, those dark spots or mottling is not common in mikawa nagura. Yours looks pure!
Cheers, Steve
Picked up a couple of koma over the holidays, 156g and 88g. The boxed piece is older, in a handmade box (folded and stapled cardboard), and a really good piece of koma, always welcome in the hone drawer.
Cheers, Steve
can someone help me with a translation? I do not know what I bought and if it was worth the money.
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Well i dont now if the leters are chinese or japanese - looks like green asagi stone Looks good =
You may /maynot have problems with the line .You have to try it . It will be a prefinisher in the worst case scenario , and it will have coticule like edge , if it is not a finisher Enjoy honing
Thx a lot. I hope not to disturb the line. Anyway, I have 5 with the same inscription but not identical.
I always forget to add this new example here, Nakayama Suita Kiita Hatanaka. Long name pretty stone.Attachment 284560
Now a group shot with the rest of the family.Attachment 284894
Starting from left to right, top to bottom;
Shinden Suita tomo,
Okudo Suita tomo,
Asano stamped Botan nagura,
Nakayama Suita ,
Asano stamped Mejiro nagura,
Nakayama stamped tomo,
Hatanaka Nakayama kiita barbers hone,
Nakayama tomo(lv.5++),
Hatanaka Nakayama Kiita Suita,
Nakayama tomo(very grit rich and fine from Alex Gilmore)