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I got the Nakayama Kiita last night and I also ended up buying the Oohira Renge Suita on my lunch hour. So I had two hones to play with. I decided to try out the Oohira and leave the Nakayama for...

Nakayama is a mine name, so is Oohira, Ozuku, Okudo, Mizukihara, Shinden, Takashima etc. etc. There are many mines in the Kyoto region. Layers of strata also have names: suita, tomae etc. Then there...

This is the other stone I was talking about. The Oohira Suitayama Betsujou (special) size 40.

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I had given up on liking the Japanese natural hones that have come through my hands. Total of seven so far. Two of which weren't razor caliber, so I gave them to my brother for his chefs knives. The...