Imanishi specializes in the production of synthetic conglomerates - treated stones. Their specialty is the production of sharpening stones which contain natural stone powder.
Imanishi also extracts and distributes natural stones for sharpening and polishing from the Oohira and Amakusa mountains. The company is headquartered in the city of Kyoto.
Kyoto is a region where natural sharpening stones have been extracted for hundreds of years. Mountainous terrain located in the western part of the Japanese island of Honshu. Kyoto (京都, Kyōto) served as the capital of Japan and the residence of the Emperor from 794 to 1868. It is one of the ten largest cities in the country with a population of 1.5 million people. Over the centuries, the area was devastated by many wars.