Yamanashi
Gem Museum,
Kawaguchi-ko, Japan
Nara
Osaka
Kyoto Takayama Tokyo
The "Yamanashi Gem Museum"
is in Kawaguchi-ko. We had to check it out, but if rocks bore
you, skip this page.
This carving was so amazing that I had
to include it even though the photo is blurry.
I think this is person who did the previous two
carvings.
An exquisitely thin carved bowl.
Another amazing carving.
This is a huge Brazilian quartz that
weighs 1270 kg.
Calcite from Irai, Brazil.
The labels are almost totally in Japanese
and localities are either not given, or just a country is named.
A huge plate of Clevelandite from Brazil
- Russ put his Camels next to it for scale.
Some of the specimens are in very poor
shape, unfortunately.
This is one of the few specimens from
Japan. We had hoped to see more Japanese specimens.
Amethyst.
A very nice & large Japan-law twin Quartz.
Garnet.
Rubies. About half the museum consisted
of cut stones, usually with at least one uncut (rough) specimen.
Decorative screen with mineral
inlay .
Opal.
A very fine, large Korean Amethyst.
Russ standing next to his favorite specimen.
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.
Hopefully in the future, they might add
labels in English for these fascinating specimens.
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