There is a Taniguchi Seibei hardware store in Fushimi, Kyoto, which has been running for 15 to 6 generations. An old saw that is not used today, obtained at the Carpenter Tools Museum, has a stamp of our shop, and we visited with Mr. Karai to find out when it was.

　Fushimi has been known as a blacksmith town since the time of Hideyoshi Toyotomi's Momoyama Kizuki Castle, and Fushimi saw was particularly famous. It is said that in the middle of the Edo period, technology was introduced from here to Aizu, Niigata Sanjo and Edo.

　Mr. Seibe (real name, Thailand-dori, 3rd year student in Taisho) was also making saws until he was in his 40s, but was pushed by the times and forced to close his workplace due to labor shortage and protect the old Japanese shop curtain as a hardware dealer. After the war, several blacksmiths, which had remained until the end of the war, ended with the Taniguchi family, and the name of the blacksmith town disappeared from Fushimi. 　The Taniguchi family not only made tools for generations, but also sold them widely to various countries, and as the core of Fushimi Kaji along with the Nakaya family, the history of that area remains in the words 'Sohonke Fujiwara,' which remains in Japanese shop curtain.

　The saw in question was obtained from a carpenter from Kagoshima, and it was said that our family had a deal with Satsuma, and during the Meiji Restoration, there were many Satsuma soldiers coming and going, and Saigo Takamori stayed there. This saw may have been associated with it since then. On my way home, I got the last old saw left in our house.