It's been quiet, so ... youtube!

Came across another beautifully made video of the making of these game 
boards, from start to finish. Some hydrocarbons and quite a few 
electrons were wasted in the first 6 minutes or so, but after that the 
majority of the work is hand-tooling. Paring, chopping, carving with 
knife and gouge, marking up and drawing lines with a remarkable curved 
sword-like inking tool, finishing and apparently burnishing with a 
bundle (bamboo sticks?) and finally packaging in an impressively 
tight-fitting crate, then put on display in the shop.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVuDM9jQQ1s&ab_channel=%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%82%
BB%E3%82%B9X

Some of these boards, and the requisite bowls and 'stones' are seriously 
pricey!

https://en.goboard-stone.co.jp/set

Don
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\u201cWe should feel offended or unsettled when we hear the word homeless not 
because we stigmatize those experiencing it but because we are ashamed 
at our own moral culpability in its existence and the continued harm it 
inflicts on the most vulnerable.\u201d Josh Kruger

\u201cTo argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, 
and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like 
administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist 
by scripture.\u201d \u2015 Thomas Paine, The American Crisis