In the summer of 1982, I went to a hospital in Hiroo, Tokyo to visit Teruhide Ishido. Teruhide (born 1899) is a master craftsman of the 10th generation of tool blacksmiths and plane making, and is the eldest son of a master craftsman who has remained in the history of Japanese carpentry tools for generations with Shuichi in the 8th and 9th generation. The unnamed plane obtained at the Carpenter Tools Museum seems to be brilliant from its shape, hammer traces, etc., so it was also because of the desire to see him once while he was fine and see him directly.

　The old man who lay down on his bed quietly responded to our greeting with his eyes. I have lung cancer and can't speak for surgery. When Karai held the bare blade with a cloth and put it out in front of his face, he quietly put his hands out. We became “ha” for a moment. It is a large plane with a width of 5 inches. It's heavy. The tip of the blade is facing the chest. But the knives held in the hand of the Lord did not tremble. It was quiet and quiet. And he wrote, "There is no doubt about the plane of Ishido." Then a month later the news of his death came.

　In June of this year, he visited Shigenobu Nagamine (born 1897), a master craftsman who made a chisel in Aizu, but died the following month. Finally, two chisels, which had not been engraved, arrived in the works of two. We lost two masters one after another. Time will not wait for us.