Antique Japanese Sumitsubo Marking & Layout Tool (Body Only) Nomi Red Oak Mizuya This is actual size at

This is actual size at 9 3/8" wide by 6 7/8" tall (24 x 17

It is painted with little blue stenciled flowers and rings around the lid

No hairlines are detected

it remains in overall fine vintage condition and has a beautiful warm patina that shows the decades

Having been used lovingly and protected in a storage box for over a century

Antique Japanese Sumitsubo Marking & Layout Tool (Body Only) Nomi Red Oak Mizuya This is actual size atAntique Japanese sumitsubo are essential tools for Japanese wood working and joinery. They work just like a chalk line in western carpentry but with sumi ink instead. This listing is for the body only. Waded up cotton soaked with sumi ink is placed in the ink pot (the bowl part), the string is then drawn though the ink soaked cotton from the spool on the back. The now inked string is pulled taught and snapped and reeled back in, just like a chalk