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Similar how? The only description I can find of the Imanishi stone says "It uses a mixture of #1000 and #3000 artificial abrasives to reach an average of #2000" which sounds, to me, like a bad idea.

It uses white fused alumina, the same as the superstones and chosera. The binder is different, though.

It's the most infuriating thing..."ao" means the color we call blue except when it refers to fruit and traffic lights, which are empirically green ("midori," in Japanese) but called "ao". Why? You...

The kanji actually says "blue hone," the weird conflagration of green and blue is odd in Japanese, but "ao" actually means blue. It's also "aotoishi" not "aotoshi." This particular stone is naniwa's...