http://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.jp/2008/10/inkstone-suzuri.html
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. List of Edo craftsmen 江戸の職人 .
suzurishi 硯師 making stones to rub ink
Until the Edo period, most ink stones had been imported from China. But now craftsmen begun to create their own work, as more townspeople people tended to write and were in need of cheap utensils.
The stones came from Yamaguchi: akama ishi赤間石, Yamanashi：amabata ishi 雨畑石, Aichi:鳳来寺石 Horaiji ishi and Tohoku, especially Iwate.
Cutting a natural stone was hard work.
source : kiyond.blogspot.jp/2011
Smoothing the surface of an inkstone 硯切り was again hard work for dilligent craftsmen.
source : k3.dion.ne.jp/~edo-cad/suzuri_kiri
The part where the ink liquid is finally collected is called
suzuri no umi 硯の海 "the sea of the inkstone".
This part had to be scrubbed with a special long chisel (ノミ）tool.
CLICK for more tools of the trade !
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Shiunseki-suzuri 紫雲石硯 Shiunseki Inkstone
Shiunseki Suzuri or Shiunseki Inkstone is an inkstone produced in Ichinoseki City and Oofunado City of Iwate Prefecture and is made from stone called Shiunseki that has a distinctive texture.
The origin of the inkstone dates back to Kamakura period when a monk who, on his travels, dropped by Chouan-ji Temple in Oofunado City and found a shiunseki stone at the bottom of a nearby river and used the stone as an inkstone. The monk later took the stone back to Kamakura and dedicated it to a Shogun at that time. With its beautiful looks, the inkstone was named Shiunseki (purple cloud) Inkstone.
Shiunseki stone is a schalstein extracted from soil more than 400 million years old from Kitakami mountain. The stone has a red-purplish color similar to azuki red beans. Also many of them have characteristic cloud-shaped patterns or greenish spots.
In addition to elegance and smoothness, the surface of the stone has fine and minute imperfections that allow ink-cake to be ground finely. These characteristics make Shiunseki stone the most suitable stone for inkstone.
There was a time when mass production of machine made inkstone was widespread and handmade Shiunseki Inkstone making waned. However, after World War II, artisans began turning their attention back to the craft of hand making the stone. Shiunseki Inkstone is still now being produced with the same quality as its legend suggests.
- source : nippon-kichi.jp/article -
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. List of Edo craftsmen 江戸の職人 .
suzurishi 硯師 making stones to rub ink
Until the Edo period, most ink stones had been imported from China. But now craftsmen begun to create their own work, as more townspeople people tended to write and were in need of cheap utensils.
The stones came from Yamaguchi: akama ishi赤間石, Yamanashi：amabata ishi 雨畑石, Aichi:鳳来寺石 Horaiji ishi and Tohoku, especially Iwate.
Cutting a natural stone was hard work.
source : kiyond.blogspot.jp/2011
Smoothing the surface of an inkstone 硯切り was again hard work for dilligent craftsmen.
source : k3.dion.ne.jp/~edo-cad/suzuri_kiri
The part where the ink liquid is finally collected is called
suzuri no umi 硯の海 "the sea of the inkstone".
This part had to be scrubbed with a special long chisel (ノミ）tool.
CLICK for more tools of the trade !
- quote -
Shiunseki-suzuri 紫雲石硯 Shiunseki Inkstone
Shiunseki Suzuri or Shiunseki Inkstone is an inkstone produced in Ichinoseki City and Oofunado City of Iwate Prefecture and is made from stone called Shiunseki that has a distinctive texture.
The origin of the inkstone dates back to Kamakura period when a monk who, on his travels, dropped by Chouan-ji Temple in Oofunado City and found a shiunseki stone at the bottom of a nearby river and used the stone as an inkstone. The monk later took the stone back to Kamakura and dedicated it to a Shogun at that time. With its beautiful looks, the inkstone was named Shiunseki (purple cloud) Inkstone.
Shiunseki stone is a schalstein extracted from soil more than 400 million years old from Kitakami mountain. The stone has a red-purplish color similar to azuki red beans. Also many of them have characteristic cloud-shaped patterns or greenish spots.
In addition to elegance and smoothness, the surface of the stone has fine and minute imperfections that allow ink-cake to be ground finely. These characteristics make Shiunseki stone the most suitable stone for inkstone.
There was a time when mass production of machine made inkstone was widespread and handmade Shiunseki Inkstone making waned. However, after World War II, artisans began turning their attention back to the craft of hand making the stone. Shiunseki Inkstone is still now being produced with the same quality as its legend suggests.
- source : nippon-kichi.jp/article -
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