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Yamanashi
Gem Museum,
Kawaguchi-ko, Japan
Nara
Osaka
Kyoto Takayama Tokyo
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The "Yamanashi Gem Museum"
is in Kawaguchi-ko. We had to check it out, but if rocks bore
you, skip this page.
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This carving was so amazing that I had
to include it even though the photo is blurry.
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I think this is person who did the previous two
carvings.
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An exquisitely thin carved bowl.
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Another amazing carving.
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This is a huge Brazilian quartz that
weighs 1270 kg.
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Calcite from Irai, Brazil.
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The labels are almost totally in Japanese
and localities are either not given, or just a country is named.
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A huge plate of Clevelandite from Brazil
- Russ put his Camels next to it for scale.
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Some of the specimens are in very poor
shape, unfortunately.
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This is one of the few specimens from
Japan. We had hoped to see more Japanese specimens.
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Amethyst.
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A very nice & large Japan-law twin Quartz.
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Garnet.
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Rubies. About half the museum consisted
of cut stones, usually with at least one uncut (rough) specimen.
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Decorative screen with mineral
inlay .
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Opal.
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A very fine, large Korean Amethyst.
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Russ standing next to his favorite specimen.
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This one cabinet alone appeared
to contain a fine collection of Japanese minerals.
Unfortunately, without labels
in katakana, I was unable to read what they were.
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Hopefully in the future, they might add
labels in English for these fascinating specimens.
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