Thread: J-Nat club

Originally Posted by rideon66

Nice iromono lime-green Kiita.

Don't see any yellow colouring to call that a Kiita. Looks more like Namito but could be my monitor.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Don't see any yellow colouring to call that a Kiita. Looks more like Namito but could be my monitor.

Well considering Namito is a strata and not a color and I have a kiita Namito stone not sure what you mean. Kiita are not just a basic yellow.

Originally Posted by rideon66

Well considering Namito is a strata and not a color and I have a kiita Namito stone not sure what you mean. Kiita are not just a basic yellow.

My bad , my posts are often a bit laconic.
Yes Namito is a strata & the greenish colour of your stone is typical of it. As I said, my monitor shows it green. Stones that transition from Kiita to Asagi have this colour but Kiita means "yellow board". Kiita does generally refer to yellow coloured stones. They mostly occur in Namito strata.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

My bad , my posts are often a bit laconic.
Yes Namito is a strata & the greenish colour of your stone is typical of it. As I said, my monitor shows it green. Stones that transition from Kiita to Asagi have this colour but Kiita means "yellow board". Kiita does generally refer to yellow coloured stones. They mostly occur in Namito strata.

The pics don't show the color as well as I would like and your monitor may make it more green. It sometimes looks yellow brown and other times looks yellow green to green. Depends on wet/dry and the lighting and still I go back and forth on deciding what color it is. I think it has a little bit of each and then just depend on the angle lighting and water content. I know what you mean by the Namito layer color as the one I have has a cool pattern and the one part is more of a wood brown yake color while the other is a light almost cream with a green tint to it. This does have that green tint a lot of the time and it could be a namito layer, but don't know as tomae is more common. In looking up lime green kiita I have seen a few with similar looks to this one a bit.

I have one a bit on the green side with a couple orange stripes. I call it Kiita but Im not possitive that is correct.



This is wet. Its a little more green tint in person. Just a pinch more. Damn cell phone.

Originally Posted by Gasman

I have one a bit on the green side with a couple orange stripes. I call it Kiita but Im not positive that is correct.

This is wet. Its a little more green tint in person. Just a pinch more. Damn cell phone.

I must admit I don't know just how yellow a stone has to be to be called kiita. Some stones are called tamago which is Jp. for egg. Some very pale stones are called habutae referring to a type of silk cloth.

So you can have a kiita coloured stone but not all stones are "kiita" eg you can have a yellow toyota & yellow ferrari but the colour does not make them identical cars.

The orange stripes in your stone are called yake referring to sunset colors. Yake aids cutting speed like some of the other inclusions such as gomae, nashiji & renge.

I like the orange color in this stone. Sure stands out nice. Thanks for the explaination. I will just call it Kiita until someone tells me different.

Originally Posted by Gasman

I like the orange color in this stone. Sure stands out nice. Thanks for the explaination. I will just call it Kiita until someone tells me different.

My Nakayama Asagi has a bunch of yake also. Very fast for a polisher.
Tricky stone to use but legendary edges..if I say so myself

Very cool! I wish i had an idea of the mine this came from but its not like it matters. It works. Well, so far. Im still playing with others for now. Got this one because of its looks and hoping it would make a nice prefinisher.

Jerry, the ring pattern and the namazu (catfish!) lines are Nakayama ‘tells’, some other nearby mines had them too so these signs aren’t conclusive, but there’s a high likelihood that it came from a mine close to Nakayama if not Nakayama.

Here’s a couple with pronounced yake bands that were typical of some Nakayama stones. Usually the ones with bands like this are hard, as these are. I call the size 60 the ‘sunrise’ stone. Many jnats came from a mountain outside Kyoto, and Japan is the land of the rising sun. Look and you’ll see a mountain with the sun rising behind it. Both are stellar hones, but very hard.