Yoshida go board store is the duty-free shop where the history which is manufacturing a go board of the traditional technique which continues from the Edo Period and is selling it is here.
I'll offer you the go board which has value so that the foreign travelers who visit Japan can have shop surely.
After making a reservation by the telephone and a mail when coming to the Tokyo environs, please come to the store.
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Merit of Japanese kaya material I explain this Japanese kaya used for the material of a go board and a shogi board. kaya are evergreen Takagi of the department of a yew tree, and gymnosperms. It is distributed over Yamano of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu south of prefectural [ Iwate-san form both ]. Although it is in a bathtub with a right man at a male , and the beginning of a go board shogi board, it is raised that there is little thing capillarity with much resin compared with other trees, that wood quality is precise, etc. Since this Wooden character is carrying out the serious role for a board, I hear that the board by which complete drying was carried out keeps a degree of dryness few, and it is optimal to a board that it is tinged with humidity again. Even if the completed board is a rainy season term with much humidity and it is in the dry period when winter humidity is low, it maintains the degree of dryness which does not have change in the humidity which a board contains and was stabilized. whenever it may strike go spring, summer, fall and winter, even if it points out shogi -- the -- it strikes, and there is no change clever. It is not necessary to say that this outstanding characteristic becomes good conditions also in durability.
The organization of the woody part of Japanese kaya material It is precise and the hardness of the grain to which resin let many one year pass is almost uniform. Shaving skin has clear grain, is glossy, and emits peculiar light perfume. Color of Japanese kaya material Although there are some differences by the conditions of location at the time of a standing tree, if it comments very generally, it will be distinguished from yellow and red by two kinds. Yellow is bright, and with light yellow, many red to the thing of yellow red strong and produced from the Aya district in Miyazaki Prefecture is seen so that it may be called an alias "azuki bean eye."
Color of Japanese kaya material Although there are some differences by the conditions of location at the time of a standing tree, if it comments very generally, it will be distinguished from yellow and red by two kinds. Yellow is bright, and with light yellow, many red to the thing of yellow red strong and produced from the Aya district in Miyazaki Prefecture is seen so that it may be called an alias "azuki bean eye."
Shaving and rounding off of Japanese kaya material What in which uses what is used two through the core of a log carrying out comparatively for the core of a seam-of-joined-boards picking log grinding in the shape of radiation is called 柾 picking. It is as follows if the material by which it was shaved and rounded off is mentioned sequentially from choice goods (quality articles).
1. Shihoumasa edge grain. Since such a material can hardly be taken, it is precious. It is treasured as charm against misfortunes for many years.
2. tenntimasa A heavens side and the bottom are an edge grain. Material is the highest thing.
3. tenmasa The heavens side is an edge grain. Therefore, it is easy to strike.
4. oimasa Although most heavens sides are edge grains, the seam of joined boards is contained in part.
5. itame It is used as a common low-end product. The heart side is superior to outside surface.
* It is old and there is also a thing of shaving and rounding off called four-quarters Kiguchi manufactured at the Edo period. It was treasured as a talisman board those days.
the character of the tree of Japanese kaya material, and a tree -- clever It is the characteristic at each tree, respectively, and when it is a board, it is one of the conditions with the strong point and an important fault. Wooden character can be guessed from the touch which appeared in the skin of the cut end of the log of material wood, or the tree of a lumber side in fact. Moreover, when it is processed, it is moved by a response, and in wood, such as an end taste of hardness, softness, and an edged tool, it is out of order, and a difference appears in the number of easy and cracks (crack), etc. In the completed board, a difference comes out in appearance, tactile feeling, etc. A wooden taste results and appears, and the individuality of a tree called wooden character looks at and understands it by the eye as well as wooden character. Moreover, there are some etc. which actually process and understand. It seems that hardness, softness, etc. are understood through processing and recognized by the intuition acquired by experience as well as wooden character in many cases although color, grain, etc. are understood by the eye. Since a wooden taste results from wooden character, a wooden taste of character and a tree is in correlation, and it cannot consider it separately at all. While the period after cutting down a standing tree until it completes as a board has been important and natural, it waits for woody stability, i.e., dryness, (what is called natural dryness). If it is a thing of the same conditions in respect of the quality of the material etc., it is good to finish dryness heavily.
Structure of Japanese kaya material Like a board, even if it sees from modeling, although the limit of simple beauty is probably challenged, I say too much and regard demonstrating that beauty as there being nothing then with this simple composition of a plane, concave and a straight line, and a curve. Many will not be found what was simplified more. A person's efforts which it is necessary that the contents of the component become abundant, and it makes is also collected here, so that it will be carried out, if the form of a thing is simplified. When seeing the board from the teacher (founder) and it turned out to be whose Tsukuru, it was often told, but the board which has individuality so much is no longer seen easily these days. I think that this is because what the author pursues and completes to there decreased even if it called it the high-class board and the handicraft. Although a low-end product has the purpose and good reason of spread, it is made so that it may be cheap and may be easy to receive, and it must be useful for spread, the purpose that quality articles are called for is different naturally. Then, an esthetic demand is investigated severely and I think that it is what must be what work of art was given. Since the rank of the shaving and rounding off of a board is a higher rank, it is a lonely limitation only by saying [ that it is a high-class board ]. Is work as a traditional-handicrafts article indispensable there? Although it is a digression, and the report "consumers also want a pro's consumers to become early" may have appeared in the magazine "game-of-go club" of the Nihon Ki-in issue, just this is that I have also wished strongly.
Drain of Japanese kaya material In recent years, with the spread of the game of go and shogi, recognition of the go board of kaya also increases and has been well-known. It seems that demand has increased suddenly as compared with before. In response to the influence, even a byway tree (tree about in 100 with a small diameter) has come to be cut down. Is this a deplorable tendency? If the standing tree is cut with present speed, it is thought that the tree which becomes a board before long will be exhausted. Also in order not to wipe out wooden culture, it is present-day duty that gaze at the future and afforestation is indispensable.
A part of overseas sale is also performed. A part of overseas sale is also performed. Overseas dispatch is possible for the go board of our shop. Please pay the bank or Industrial and Commercial Bank of China of Japan. In addition, a credit card cannot be used. However, when sending overseas, the point that a mailing cost is high is a problem. If absorbed, it will change with the weight of a go board. 15000 yen took incidentally in Beijing in China. I will investigate a mailing cost, if you can ask by e-mail.
The feature of our shop Handmade [ by a craftsman with the examples of traditional craftsmanship which continue from the Edo period ]. Not much many go boards cannot be manufactured because of one-point handmade [ manual plane, sword peak, and one-point ]. However, the cheap low-end product which is generally circulating is differed from greatly. The present age's craftsman decreases and it is not in a store with technology like this. [ other ] It is designated as the only intangible cultural asset in the go board store in Japan. New work is announced once in [ in two months ]. I would like you to know the go board of the highest peak in Japan to many people. Thank you for having you read to the last. Since translation software is used, there may be a portion which is not translated correctly.
