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>>17521812
Pictures don't do it justice unfortunately. It was mined from the deepest strata in one of the most famous whetstone mines in japan, okudo. The sunashi means, "without holes". Most stones from this location are called suita. Dissolved gasses formed bubbles when the rock was stratifying and finding a clean consistent sample without holes is extremely rare. Suita and sunashi both have their pros and cons.

Here's a prettier one from the internet. The pattern is called karasu. I think it means crow in japanese.