Hello, this is MITUBACI staff Nishimura.
The other day, I went to Itoigawa in Niigata Prefecture as part of a company off-site meeting.MITUBACI conducts an out-of-town training once a year, away from Tokyo.
This year we went to Fossa Magna Museum and Itoigawa, where you can enjoy looking for jade. We had meetings, visited the museum, and enjoyed a BBQ, but the search for jade on the beach was unexpectedly exciting.
We went to a place called Oyashirazu Beach, a little further west than the Jade Beach.
I was worried that it would be too hot to search in the height of summer, but it was a day with a few clouds, so I explored for about 30 minutes.
Since many of our staff members are knowledgeable in their professions, I was able to learn a lot from them as I searched for the right place.
Jade is white, green or blackish, sometimes bluish.
It is a very hard stone, and also very hard to break, so it should be more like a triangle than a circle.
It's easier to find them when they're wet and shiny!
This is a zakzaky search in light of the fact that
The stone found by Ms. Fujimori's daughter was a beautiful green color and might be jade! It might be jade!
アダン (ADAM)Click here to see the staff's favorite stones.
Click here to see the stones found by our craftsman, Yanagisen.
Here are the stones collected by craftsman Shindo
I was polishing a beautiful round stone in here.
It's not jade," but it's shiny and beautiful, and the size is perfect for an accessory.
I ran out of energy and decided to collect various colors and types of stones instead of jade.
What I like best is the white stone that lets light through.
I think the stone has a lot of granite and an ash-like component.
I also picked up some jade-like stones.
I also wanted it to be shiny like Shindo's stone, so I polished it with a buffing machine that polishes rings, but to my surprise, it didn't change at all! I am thinking that this hardness must be jade.
It was a beautiful place with many different types of stones and clean water!
