The SEIKINSEKI 青金石

Name: The SEIKINSEKI 青金石
Brand: Hatano Sen 旗之千
SKU: dark lapis
Price: 100.0 USD
Availability: InStock

$100.00

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The Legend

Mined from within central Asia, Lapis Lazuli (青金石) is a semi-precious stone that holds significant cultural value in traditional Japanese jewelry designs. Alongside other prized gemstones like agate, coral, and ivory, Lapis was commonly used in the creation of netsuke, inro, and ojimi, as well as Japanese sword decoration.

Lapis also saw a great amount of usage in shippō (七宝) or Japanese enamelware, which was a reference to the seven treasures recorded in a number of Buddhist texts. Although designs largely varied, they generally included at least some of the following precious materials: gold, silver, emerald, coral, agate, lapis, giant clamshell, glass and pearl.

The Pendant

The SEIKINSEKI pendant boasts a roughly 1.75 x 0.3 x 0.3 inch piece of the finest Lapis Lazuli, acquired from the same mines that supplied and still supply Japanese jewelers today.

Like any of our accessories, each pendant is hand-cut at the forge and is completely unique in its coloration and pattern. The SEIKINSEKI also comes with a custom bamboo box.

Gem Coloration

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Although Lapis is most commonly associated with a dark blue hue, its color can range across different shades of blue and other hues like violet or turquoise. This is largely determined by the aggregation of different minerals in the stone. For example, the presence of a mineral called afghanite creates a pale blue shade in Lapis, while lazurite is responsible for producing royal blue shade. As the smith cuts each pendant from different stones of differing mineral compositions, the color of each will range across multiple hues.

The pendant pictured in the photos above is one of a lighter shade with a greater amount of afghanite. If you wish to request for a specific coloration, please email us at info@hatanosen.com to discuss.

Our current supply of Lapis has been noted to contain a larger amount of lazurite at this time. As such, please expect for your pendant to be of a darker hue of blue, with whorls of pyrite and calcite woven throughout the stone. We will update this notice if this changes.

The Seikinseki

It’s pretty decent. The leather necklace is to be desired, but the pendant itself is fine.

Love it!

Great design, good quality stone and a good metal chain. A great product overall. Which delivery would have been faster.

Absolutely beautiful

Beautiful piece
It arrived and I absolutely love it. It’s beautiful, unique, and feels very special. Exactly what I was hoping for. Thank you! 💙

Reviewing the necklace

Honestly i like it alot and the chain is good quality and i love how the lapiz stone itself looks mixed with the other minerals and a nice deep shade of blue 10/10 would order from here again

Love the pendant!!

Beautiful craftsmanship and stone! I love this necklace! I used to have a lapis lazuli stone when I was a kid and some how misplaced it. It made me sad because it meant something to me. With this necklace, I now have a piece of that stone with me at all times ❤️

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