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Tamamoku is a good description more than Karasu (not trying to beat a dead horse, I think you paid a fair market price for the stone regardless of pattern, so it's not important what it says it is)....

Shoubu patterning looks like a quilt in wood terms. I wonder if they call it karasu because they just don't have a term for it, but they don't want to say that it's plain. Of course, if something is...

Karasu is generally pretty much the pattern you see on gray and light brown stones, but even in that case, any black on those stones has been stretched. There is a stone on etsy with one spot, and...

I think karasu often exists only in the layers of text in a listing, and not in the stones.

But as long as the price is reasonable, it's not that big of an offense. It just seems to be the trend...

I have no experience with wakasa, but that one looks a lot like some stones from nakayama.

The ozuku looks gigantic!

Sounds like you're off to a good start. Every stone I have is different. I'm not sure I could tell any of them apart by the shaving edge, but I could sure tell which is which by the feel of the...

I don't know if anything is hard and uniform that's harder than an ozuku at the hardest level. They are hard enough to be undesirable unless you are running through nagura (but you could do that on a...