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Your cart is empty. Made with the best materials and traditional techniques, this standard is widely used in school and workplace.
It is very easy to use and can be used for a long time.
The top frame has a triangular ruler, making it convenient for drawing lines.
Rurik Osipich
2025-05-01 16:36:12
This soroban is amazingly refined for something so simple. It is a fine example of the Japanese facility for mating form and function happily. It really feels great in the hand. Making the top rail with two angled faces instead of one flat one makes it so easy to tilt it forward to reset all of the counters to the bottom. (Some supply sorobans with a reset button - a needless complication. All that is necessary after tilting forward is to run a finger along the bar separating the ones and the fives to push the fives up against the top rail. The angular shape of the counters makes this work perfectly.) The frame is ebony with beech counters that are quite uniform and perfectly fitted to the rods - it's really a nice piece of workmanship (the person making it seems to have signed the inside of the frame). I learned to use a Chinese abacus about forty years ago and have used it frequently (no batteries, the reading stays on it until you clear it - great for people who are constantly interrupted). Never mastered division - the Chinese method is complicated, lots of 'readings' to memorize. and if you don't use it every day you forget. It also sometimes requires the extra five and extra one counters of the Chinese abacus. The Japanese method taught in books like Takashi Kojima's 'Japanese Abacus' is intuitive and easy to remember - wish I had discovered it earlier. The five beads per rod of the Sorobn make its readings unambiguous: the seven beads of the Chinese abacus make for multiple representations of the same number. I heartily recommend the Japanese soroban and this one by Tomoe in particular.
Brad Warren
2025-04-16 11:02:47
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Customer
2025-04-01 18:32:37
I'm so glad I spent the money to get this soroban. It's the genuine article, complete with the Japanese price tag still attached. The quality is immediately noticeable: silky smoothe movement, light as a feather. Wow!
Nora
2025-03-22 11:24:58
I wanted to use this abacus to teach my child soroban and anzan, but the beads move too much and do not stay in place. I am going to have to buy a new one; I bought it a while ago, otherwise I would just return it. It's frustrating because, why else do you use an abacus? Why wouldn't it keep its shape properly? And it has a Japanese tag so it's made in Japan at least. Maybe it was just too cheap.
cr
2025-03-08 14:05:22
I usually delay several weeks before writing a review to be certain of my product evaluation. This is different. I received the soroban an hour ago and marvel at the craftsmanship $35 can buy. 50 years ago I learned to calculate on my father's soroban, which was all-wood/bamboo construction and quite beautiful. This "modern" soroban is more meticulously crafted, being a delight to the eyes and hands. Thank you, Tomoe, for preserving tradition!
Customer
2025-02-23 16:29:02
The abacus was nicely packaged. looking at the abacus itself it may appear as plastic, but upon further inspection you can clearly see the wood grain on the frame, the rods, and the beads. It was a little smaller than I originally expected, and I did have some trouble bumping other beads at first; but with practice and proper technique this was less of an issue. In all the abacus feels sturdy and well made, and it was a joy learning to use it.
Unix Man
2024-12-14 12:45:10
It arrived nicely boxed. It was about a week late, but I was wondering what Japan Post was. The item came from Japan. I payed the expedited shipping and so it arrived only a few days later that I thought it should, but had I not it could easily have taken a month extra time. I got a soroban it is high quality and looking at how efficient it is made to work no wonder the Japanese beat the US's best with an adding machine. Anyway I am very happy with what I got, and how they shipped it.PDK
SueZie
2024-11-16 11:34:02
A lovely table game that feels and looks awesome. Easy game to play but lots of scope to grow into a top class player.
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