When prep school teacher Shin Hyeong-Seok came to Japan some 15 years ago and discovered the holy grail of chalk, he fell so deeply in love that he became an importer. Now, he manufactures the ...

Editor’s Note: Learn more about the legendary Hagoromo chalk on the latest episode of Great Big Story, a new podcast from CNN about the surprising stories all around us. Some call it the Rolls Royce ...

The history and mystery of a cult favorite whose continued existence is an unlikely story that bridges two countries long at odds. Hagoromo chalk has become a cult favorite of elite academics and ...

This spring, an 80-year-old Japanese chalk company went out of business. Nobody, perhaps, was as sad to see the company go as mathematicians who had become obsessed with Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, the ...

Two weeks ago, online documentary site Great Big Story premiered a mini-film on Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, the legendary Japanese chalk with a cult following among mathematicians (as one of them says, ...

Mathematicians are paying big bucks to stockpile the Hagoromo chalk from Japan, which some have called ’the nectar of the gods’ In Greece, there’s been a rush on the banks. In mathematical circles, ...

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The bright-white sticks drop one by one into the whir and clatter of a weatherworn piece of machinery, where they are stamped with the most celebrated name in chalk: Hagoromo. The early stages of the ...