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add steps to creating shogi pieces
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CarsonDavis committed Jun 30, 2024
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- **Carved:** Hand carving is a huge step up. Some old japanese dude will literally carve every stroke of every letter with a tiny knife.
- **Lacquered:** If you really want to go big, the carved characters can be painstaking filled with lacquer, layer by layer, in a process that takes weeks or even months to complete.

![img](ShogiPieceManufacturingProcess.webp)
_image from kurokigoishiten.com_

This image shows the steps involved in the carved and lacquered variants.

### Font
Where chess can have interesting designs for the exact shape of the pieces, shogi has a large variety in fonts. If you want to read a little more in depth, I stumbled across [this site](https://en.i-tsu-tsu.co.jp/blog/shogi/948) which covers 9 different fonts.

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