Antique Japan Abacus - Soroban Wooden Calculating Tool

[Lanoosh97]

I need one so bad and i can't buy anything online ??

any suggestions ???plz

[china194910]

its invented by chinese ppl 

[cc0723chihuahuas]

where did you find the soroban?

[EpiXnyper]

Isn't that the softypapa in the video?!

[elkolodj1]

do you know how to build an abacus with home materialse??

[lihnlihn]

@elkolodj1 yeah. cheerios and toothpicks..

[xinemommy]

Thank you so much for posting this! I've always had an abacus like that, though shorter than yours, and I didn't realize it was an antique. Now I just have to figure out how to use it.

[cheshirecandy]

I'm very interested in learing how to use the older soroban as I own one with 1/5 beads, most tutorials I've seen show how you use a modern Soroban though... Some tips? Anyone? :)

[DaKrazedKyubizt]

i prefer 1 heaven and 4 earth beads, but shoo, i'd probably buy that, if i had the money for something that old.

[ArkimeTyhaen107]

where can i get one in the U.S?

(and don't say chinatown or asiatown)

[DaKrazedKyubizt]

doubt you'll be able to find one, but i do know that Tomoe Soroban sells em, and they're really good. I recommend the 27-digit one.

[abhimanyu5]

use a calculator bitch !!!

[Isaacixav]

soroban is first used in china n it's originally from china~~~ "soroban" is the transliteration in japanese of the word "suanpan" in chinese~~~~~~~

[NippleOfNippon]

@Isaacixav

abacus is originally from ancient west asia. not china.

[Jyhwei0507]

I'm learning to use the suànpán (the japanese style one, soroban); it's really quite useful, especially for mental math calculations (when you do abacus in your head)

[ichigo2008bleach]

id like to see u use 1 if u can plz.

[DaKrazedKyubizt]

I have a 2 videos of me using one, neither of them are very good, but one of them are close up.

[sniperfalcon12]

FIRST COMMENT!