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Shogi Pieces, 'Satsuma-hon-tsuge', Etsuzan, Super high carved, Kinki calligraphy style

¥37,000

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These are Satsuma-hon-tsuge (real Satsuma boxwood) Shogi pieces, specially engraved in Kinki-sho (Imperial script).
"Kinki-sho calligraphy" is very popular with its long history and dynamic writing. "Kinki" is a very popular calligraphy style engraved on Shogi pieces. There is a famous saying among Shogi players, "playing Shogi cannot start without Kinki and cannot end up without Kinki".
"Super high carved" is a carving style of Shogi pieces. Carving styles are classified by the complexity of characters.
The order of complexity is as follows. The simplest one is Black carved, then Usually carved, Middle carved, High carved, and the most complicated one is Super high carved. Generally speaking, the more strokes a carving style has, the higher the grade is.
Super-high curved characters are not simplified at all. Therefore, this style has more strokes than other styles and easy to read.
Ranked equally with the finest quality wood grain of 'Mikurajima-hon-tsuge' (real Mikurajima boxwood), 'Satsuma-hon-tsuge' (real Satsuma boxwood), with its hard and tenacious wood, is also referred to as 'Practicality is Satsuma-hon-tsuge'.
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  • Shogi Pieces, Satsuma-hon-tsuge (real Satsuma boxwood) , Etsuzan, Super high carved, Kinki calligraphy style
    (将棋駒 薩摩本黄楊 越山作 特上彫 錦旗書)
  • Contained in a paulownia box.
  • Actual shipping cost shall be coved by the customer.
You may find small knots, burrs, rolled-in bark as all these products are made of natural trees.
There may be some small flaw or scratch, dent, chipping.

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