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instrumentNomi

のみ · Japanese

Needles bound with silk to a wooden rod

pushedworked
2hands
Made ofsteel, wood, silk thread
Pointsa group of needles, bound in a flat or round cluster
Heldthe rod rests on one hand and is pushed with the other, at a shallow angle

What it is

A wooden rod with a group of needles bound to the end in silk, pushed at a shallow angle rather than straight down.

The long version

Tebori means carving by hand. The angle is what separates it from every other poking tool on this site: the needles go in obliquely, which is how the method lays the graded blacks that Japanese work is built on.

A machine can outline faster. Practitioners who keep the rod usually keep it for the shading.

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Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedIrezumi — Wikipedia (en)
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, not machine-translated

Sources

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there

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