Yellow Mountain Imports 1-1/8'' Solid Shin-Kaya Spruce Go Game Table Board

This is a Japanese standard size Shin-Kaya Goban. Looks like kaya, feels like kaya, but doesn't cost like kaya. Most shin-kaya (Japanese for ''alternative kaya'') boards from Japan or Korea are made of spruce wood from Alaska or Siberia. Our shin-kaya Go boards are made of Tibet spruce wood from Yunnan Province in southern China. This type of wood is called ''picea asperata'' in Latin and is sometimes called ''dragon spruce'' or ''Tibet Spruce''.