The Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica D. DON. (Taxodiaceae) is a widely distributed conifer called sugi in Japanese. This wood is the most popular building material for Japanese housing. Although many cedar cores are reddish brown, about 20% are black, as a result of genetic factors, physical damage, infection of fungus, etc., and are called kurojin in Japanese. Chemical research on the terpene components of cedar cores is limited to the reddish brown ones. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] This prompted us to examined the terpene constituents of black heartwood.Shaved chips (3.92 kg) of black heartwood were exhaustively extracted with MeOH at room temperature for 4 weeks. The extract was partitioned between H 2 O and EtOAc. Repeated separation of the EtOAc-soluble portion by chromatography over ordinary-phase silica gel and reverse-phase silica gel furnished a novel abietane, sugikurojin A (1), dimeric abietanes, and sugikurojins B (2) and C (3), along with known compounds formosaninol (4), 10) a-muurolene (5), 11) d-cadinene (6), 12) calamenene (7), 13,14) T-cadinol (8), 15) cubenol (9), 15) epi-cubenol (10), 16,17) cubebol (11), 16,17) 21) 7(14),10-bisaboladien-1-ol-4-one (16), 22) 2,7(14),10-bisabolatrien-1-ol-4-one (17), 23) 7 (14),10-bisaboladien-1,4-diol (18) A-C (1-3) were isolated from the black heartwood of Cryptomeria japonica. The structure of sugikurojin A was deduced to be 19-hydroxy-6,7-dehydroferruginol on the basis of extensive NMR experiments. Sugikurojin B was a dimer of 6,7-dihydroxyferruginol and 6,7-dehydroferruginol with a 6-O-11 linkage. Sugikurojin C was a dimeric ferruginol with 6-O-7 and 7-O-6 linkages. Also obtained in this investigation were the known compounds formosaninol (4), 15 sesquiterpenes (5-19), 16 diterpenes (20-35), three phenylpropanoids (36-38), and a phenolic compound (39).