I'm not completely convinced that most, if not all, of the newly available Asano nagura is in fact Asano nagura. Back in the day, from the time of Nagayuki Asano, the stamps namesake, through when Morio Sakamoto inherited them, Asano stamps were a guarantee of quality.
Today, most of the nagura, other then Tenyjou, becomes basically inert after the second dilution and doesn't cut as efficiently as vintage pieces. Nagura quality, stamp location and how they are cut lead me to believe that something is not right but luckily the ones represented above are on-point. Buyer beware.
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