Board craftsman Mr.Torayoshi Yoshida made Hiba wood special dimension of 9*9-ro Shihou-masa 2.4-Sun (about 74 mm thick) Table Go Board No.79042F

Yoshida Gobanten was established in 1916 and continuously made various Go and Shogi boards for more than 100years.
The owner takes over the name of 'Master Yoshida Torayoshi' for generations.
All the boards made by the 3rd and 4th generation of Yoshida Torayoshi, the present owner, have engraved words of Ichi-jo (一如) in Chinese character, as the evidence of his work.
The word 'Ichi-jo' is a part of famous four-character idiom 'Busshin Ichi-nyo (物心一如)', that literally means 'matter and mind are one/body and mind as one'.
This implies a strong will that when we make boards, our board and mind are as one.
The engraved words 'Ichi-jo (一如)' is the evidence of Go master, who made this board with his spirit and board as one.
We are happy to offer these special boards made by the Go board master Mr. YOSHIDA Torayoshi, for his devotion and his long years of experience and outstanding technique.

This beautiful board has a bright, soft wood color unique to Hiba wood.

This is a beautiful board made of Hiba wood with almost no defects.
All four sides of the board are Masame wood grains.
*Please check photo images.

This product is perfect for a gift, collection, and of course, can be used in Go games and matches.

"Hiba" is an evergreen coniferous tree of the cypress family found almost everywhere in Japan, but it is different from "hinoki" (Japanese cypress).
Hiba wood has a bright yellowish-white color and a fine grain, giving it a beautiful appearance. It has a distinctive aroma, and the wood is somewhat light and soft, making it resistant to water and moisture. Go boards made of hiba boast a good feeling when placing the Go stones, but the sound is subdued and discreet.
Hiba is known as a highly durable wood because of its resin content, which makes it resistant to decay and water. It is widely used as a board material because of its bright white color and inconspicuous grain.
Hiba is also famous for being used in the Golden Hall of Chuson-ji Temple, which is a historical building designated as a National Treasure of Japan.
It is mainly used as a material for buildings, ships, civil engineering, and railroad sleepers because of its resistance to water and moisture. The bark is also used as a match cord or rope.

*Go board materials are explained detail in "How to choose a board".
Please take a look.
Go to "How to choose a board".

"Shihou-masa" cutting style is the most valuable cutting style among all cutting styles !!!

"Shihou-masa" is an ideal cutting style with straight grain (masame)* on the top, bottom, and both sides (players' sides) of the board.
This cutting style is only possible when the wood is cut out from a tree with a large diameter, so we can say that the word shihou-masa means the boards are made from trees with a large diameter or a well-aged tree.
Therefore, it is regarded as the most valuable board with a higher price.
Especially, a board made of kaya wood (Japanese Torreya) shihou-masa is very expensive, sometimes priced in the millions or even tens of millions of JPY (several thousand to several hundred thousand US dollars), because they are extremely rare and hard to get.

*Go board cutting styles are explained detail in "How to choose a board".
Please take a look.
Go to "How to choose a board".

• Board craftsman Mr.Torayoshi Yoshida made Hiba 9*9-ro special dimension table Go board
• Shihou-masa 2.4 sun / about 74 mm
• Product No. : No.79042F
• Size：219 mm × 200 mm × 74 mm
• Weight : About 1.5 kg


• Please bear the actual cost for shipping charges outside Japan.

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.