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Sooner or later every hone has to loose all that stamps and show it's true face.

Not yet.
I feel sorry to put such a beauty to work.

I'd be happy if this stone has become a true SUITA. Preferably something like Okudo Suita from Alx :)
Nothing is bad with it.
But I am sure that it is not :(
It's just an Awase-do.


Thank...

It seems to me that small holes ( AKA Su / 巣 ) are typical for some types of toishi including iromono and number of other Awasedo from Tomae strata.
Not just for SUITA only.

Here it is the...

Side and end faces of the stone are covered with varnish.


Side face:

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End face:

I have never seen j-nats of SUITA type marked as AWASE-DO. Never!

All the SUITA are usually stamped with 「巣板」 or 「本巣板」 or 「白巣板」 or just as 「スイタ」 ( SUITA written by katakana ) and like. But...

As far as I know Kuroda Takeshi has no it's own stamp to put on the stones that hi is selling.


As for this stamp:
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this is the stamp of "Kyoto Natural Hone Sales Association" (...

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modern J-nat. I don't know where has it been mined from... it should be somewhere near Kyoto...

one more cutie from Japan:

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