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No. Never. All the communications has been by e-mail, IM, Skype and so on.

I know Japanese on very elementary level. It is also not my mothertongue.
Google translator give no or little to understand japanese. Usually it gives gibberish.
I prefer to use dictionaries like...

Thank You, Jerry for your compliment!

Sometimes I actually give master classes on japanese stones and their use.
But I am so far away from most of you... and I am not so fluent in English...it's...

The kanji on Nagura is 中, the meaning is here Kanji details for 中

So the 中 is here not for Nakayama ( which is written as 中山 ), but for so-called Chu-Nagura ( 中名倉 ).
Chu-Nagura is not as fine...