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I think perhaps a lot more… The species is protected due to overcutting, and cannot be harvested until it has died naturally. Figuring they can get several hundreds of years old, this explains a lot better how it is so expensive nowadays.
I thought this deserves its own topic.
meta
I wonder if it is possible to copy or some how have a post in two places. Because the original post kinda deserved a place on the original thread.
In the mean time,
I’ve made it clear what the “…” in this thread means.
Based on this thread over at Discourse.org, which is 16 days old and was responded to by one of the co-founding core team members, I’m fairly positive this is not currently a feature .
so there’s hope?
Back when the site existed, GoGameGuru (now defunct) was offering a floor goban for $100,000.
It may have even been purchased sometime between July 2014 and Dec 2016, since it is listed as out of stock later https://web.archive.org/web/20161221063851/https://shop.gogameguru.com/kaya-go-board-86/
Note: it was not necessarily sold through GoGameGuru, I think I recall seeing this same item listed via Kiseido’s online shop. For such an exclusive and high-priced item, I imagine that it was listed for sale via multiple shops just for the publicity.