Goban kuroki goishi full#

The board still smells sweet and still looks beautiful today, but then I haven’t really played on it that much as I mainly play go on KGS. The beautiful even yellow color, the fine grained surface, and the strong pleasant aroma along with vendor’s description of 本榧柾目 leads me to believe that the wood is kaya rather than shin kaya.

I wanted to buy a really nice one-piece goban made from kaya with Japanese craftsmanship because I liked the waxed surface, the techimasa cut (grain running from the bottom to the top as well as straight across the top and bottom), and the evenly raised lines defining the playing field. Although the wood is not kaya wood of Japanese origin, the manufacture of the board is from Japan. I purchased my one-piece table goban in around Nov 2009 from Japan. Even composite boards made from Hyuga kaya can put a big dent in a go enthusiast’s budget very quickly. But kaya is a very rare wood especially if you want to buy one made from the famous endangered Hyuga kaya from present-day Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan.

Goban kuroki goishi full#

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Height from ground ( i.e., with legs included): 10'.

181 slate (black) and 180 clamshell (white) goishi (go stones) in two wooden Kitani Goke (Japanese-style wooden goishi bowls).

Both the clamshell and the river slate (black) goishi have a diameter of ~0.87', while the river slate goishi, with a thickness of ~0.31', are slightly thicker than the clamshell goishi. The complete set of clamshell (white) goishi seems to be a composite of two different, incomplete sets, as 95 of the stones have a thickness of ~0.29', while the other 85 are slightly thinner, with a thickness of only ~0.19'. Included with this board is a full set of goishi (stones) stored in two kitani ('japanese-style,' referring to their shape) goke (wooden bowls). This is because ki-ura boards, which are cut from the core of the kaya log, mostly exhibit straight grain lines on their playing surface which run parallel to the length of the board in a manner similar to masame boards, with the exception of a singular band of itame (or 'flat grains') that runs down the center. Vintage 19x19 hon-kaya ('real kaya') ki-ura itame (flat-cut) goban (go board). Although itame boards are generally considered inferior to masame ('rift-cut' or 'straight cut') boards, ki-ura boards like this one are the most prized of the various kinds of itame.