About an hour north of Hiroshima by car, there is an old town called Chiyoda in the mountain gorge in the Chugoku Mountains. I visited Shinsaburo Mikami here with Kagi under the guidance of Kobe's tool blacksmith, Hiromitsu Miyano.

　Mr. Shinzo (1923), the head of the company, succeeds the saw blacksmith's house and is the fourth generation. Grandma, born in 1863 (1863), said that it was founded in 1832 (1832), but it seems that he started blacksmithing in earnest in the Meiji era.

　It is not clear where Shinsaburo of the first generation trained, but it may be Oomi Koga because it is said to be Kyoto. For generations, he has been specializing in the front saws of wood grinding.

　On the outskirts of town, our house lives with a shop on the right side of the highway. There are large workplaces and warehouses on the opposite side, but now there are only two prominent craftsmen of saw. At the peak of around 1940 (1940), there were over 30 craftsmen and 10 people were lined up in Saw Filing alone.

　There are only two important blacksmiths on the back of the house, and the fireplace is large because you can grind the front, and when you hit the front saw with a length of 2 feet and a width of 1 shaku, Mukozuchi is hanging seven people It is said that the hammer was echoing vigorously, "Tonton Totettenkan". However, the waves of the times were relentlessly approaching here. The fire of the furnace has been extinguished since 1971 (1971).