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Shogi pieces craftsman "Tomiishi(富石)" made Satsuma-hon-tsuge (Satsuma boxwood) Kujaku-moku (Peacock pattern wood grain) Souho-konomi/Souho-gonomi (the script favored by Souho) mori-age (embossed) Shogi pieces

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Shogi pieces craftsman "Tomiishi(富石)" made Satsuma-hon-tsuge (Satsuma boxwood) Kujaku-moku (Peacock pattern wood grain) Souho-konomi/Souho-gonomi (the script favored by Souho) mori-age (embossed) Shogi pieces.

"Tomiishi" is a piece maker who learned piece making under "Fugetsu," a piece maker who is regarded as one of the top five masters of the modern age.
He is highly regarded for his precise and accurate piece-making based on the craftsmanship skills he has cultivated through ironworking techniques.

These Shogi pieces are splendid and beautiful with the carving and embossing techniques cultivated over many years.
"Fuji Koma no Kai" (Shogi Pieces Craftsman Association) / The Shogi Pawnmaker Training Association is organized by "Fugetsu," a pawnmaker based in Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
"Tomiishi" is a piece maker who learned piece making under "Fugetsu," a piece maker who is regarded as one of the top five masters of the modern age.
He is highly regarded for his precise and accurate piece-making based on the craftsmanship skills he has cultivated through ironworking techniques.

'Mori-age-koma' is a piece made by filling the engraved characters with lacquer, and after drying and polishing the surface flat, finishing by using a brush to add more lacquer on top of the engraved lacquer parts to give slightly raised characters.
Ranked equally with the finest quality wood grain of 'Mikurajima-hon-tsuge', 'Satsuma-hon-tsuge', with its hard and tenacious wood, is also referred to as 'Practicality is Satsuma-hon-tsuge'.
'Kujaku-moku' is a beautiful pattern of the wood grain spreading out from the bottom towards the top part of the piece like 'a peacock with its wings spread', giving it its strong point.
Since Kujaku-moku only appears at the part of the tree where it branches out, only enough wood for a few pieces can be taken from one tree.
Therefore, in order to complete a set of Kujaku-moku pieces, multiple boxwood materials with similar wood coloring are required.
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It is said that "Souho-konomi/Souho-gonomi" was developed based on the typeface "Ansei" which was handed down from ancient times.
It is said that "Souho-konomi/Souho-gonomi" is a typeface developed by Okuno Ikkyo based on "Ansei" and named "Souho-konomi" after "Amano Souho," a professional Go player who was called "Kisei" at the end of the Edo period (1603-1868).
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  • Shogi pieces craftsman "Tomiishi(富石)" made Satsuma-hon-tsuge (Satsuma boxwood) Kujaku-moku (Peacock pattern wood grain) Souho-konomi/Souho-gonomi (the script favored by Souho) mori-age (embossed) Shogi pieces
  • Shogi pieces in a paulownia flat box

  • 1,000 JPY flat rate shipping within Japan, free shipping for purchases totaling 20,000 JPY or more.
    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.

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