Sun tiger Jnat?

[Wabisabi-Ken]

Hey team, just wondering if anyone has knowledge about these sun tiger jnats? I think I've seen sun tiger come up before but from everything I search they were man made stones. I can't seem to find much information about the stone in question. Tried a Google translate on it but none of the translation came up with much in my Google searching after that.

is anyone familiar with these stones?

 

[ethompson]

Image isn't showing for me for some reason. But I've bought a couple flavors of Natsuya with Sun Tiger branding. The harder ones I believe are from Suttobe mine, not sure about the softer ones. @naader will know more than me.

 

[Wabisabi-Ken]

Is the image still not showing? I can see it on my browser

 

[ethompson]

I see it now. I think Sun Tiger was just a retail brand and they had products from all over. Im pretty sure I've even seen synthetics marketed by them.

 

[refcast]

Matsunaga or sun tigee (I think they're the same company) like many other synthetic stone makers, dealt in natural stones in Japan before the mining ran out.

The sigma stone website in japanese shows this history for example.