Japanese Beginnings

Seven years later, just after Mr. Tamura had changed his life, Mr. Shigetomi returned with the result of his "back-to-the-drawing-board" endeavor. He had created the Firescope. Mr. Tamura looked into this device and agreed that it was amazingly easy to detect the quality of the cutting:

"With a shock, it suddenly occurred to me that what we had here was a device which could clearly and unmistakably show how good or bad a diamond was. All that was needed was the human eye. All that you had to do was look for yourself..."

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