Chiyozuruzehide (real name, Hiroshi Kato) was born in Iikura, Tokyo in 1874 as the third son of the second generation swordsmith, Nashinatoshi Nagaun.

　At the age of 11, he was the eighth generation of the Ishido family, who was famous as a swordsmith in Azabu, Tokyo for generations, and was entrusted to the Ishido family as a disciple of his uncle, Koichi (Juei era), and walked the path of tool blacksmithing . It was the same year as Koichi's eldest son, Shuichi, the ninth generation, and was a good training friend.

　When she was 21 years old, she married her daughter, Shin. He lived in the Ishido family until 1899, when he was 26 years old, but at that time he became independent and called the Chiyozuru. Since then, in 1957, he has left many anecdotes with his fame until he died at the age of 84. His forged knives, along with their sharpness, the dignity of the style and the beauty of modeling have been called the highest peak in this road since the Meiji era, and the life has been sublimated from "use to beauty" for those who seek and use it. Was the one who went.

　On the other hand, the kitchen seems to have always been a fire car because of the wide-ranging interaction with literary ink artists and poet scholars, and the style of not working for food.

　This is also given to close people and those who took care of them by hitting hatches, nails, cut swords, kitchen knives, razors, scissors, and fire chopsticks between work, from the inquisitive and wind spirit. Even today, it is the envy of lovers.

　I met Edokuma in 1919, when I was 40 years old. The story of encounters with Edo bears is described in detail in Hideo Shirasaki's book "Chiyozuruzehide". According to that, around 1919, there was a carpenter named Jiro Kato in Osaka. He was born in Chiba Awa, and was a disciple of Tokyo's master since childhood, and his skills were certain, but he did not fit with his master because of his own temperament, flowed to Kansai and became a windi craftsman in Osaka. However, it is said that "Edokuma" became the street name from the place where he sprinkled with Edokko dialect.

　There were so many craftsmen who wanted to celebrate the household miniature shrine rather than to use Chiyozuru's tools, but Edokuma, who knew Chiyozuru's chisel, wrote a letter with earnest wish to Chiyozuru, who had no knowledge of his arms, and sent him a copy of his family register.

　Perhaps the master should know the master, Chiyozuru, in response to his heart, trained 15 pressed chisels of orders, worked on the train fare, and went to Osaka at night. Chiyozuru always handed it directly to the orderer to confirm its evaluation.

　It is also interesting that the two people who met each other for the first time at Osaka Station show each other's poverty. Chiyozuru was a short-lived and expensive, but his life was not easy because of his work that he always had to convince himself. Nevertheless, how did you deal with the price of the poor carpenter Edo bear?

　According to Hideo Shirasaki, carpenters around the Taisho era were usually 1.50 yen, 3.50 yen per set of 10 carpenter chisels, 7.50 yen for good goods, and Shuichi Ishido was exceptionally 75 yen. It was said that Chiyozuru was 10 yen. The order of Edo bear was 15, so it was at least 150 yen. For his own arm, he sought a huge debt.

　The story goes around 1940. There is the Kato family, who has been running a ryokan since the middle of the Meiji era in Kibiki-cho, Tokyo. Mr. Toshio Kato was the second generation head here. According to her daughter, she is a hobbyist and very elaborate person, suddenly acquainted with teacher Chiyozuru, went to the busy Chiyozuru family in Meguro, and was good at hitting her own knives. It seems that On the other hand, he seems to have been taking care of the Chiyozuru family from the back.

　At that time, the daughter of Edokuma from Osaka came to Tokyo relying on Chiyozuru. Edo bear died and came to consult about the disposal of an example chisel. At that time, Chiyozuru's chisel was as many as 37 pieces. In the end, Mr. Takahashi took over this. 　In addition, Takahashi died this year and came to the museum with Iwamoto, former director of the Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum, who was introduced by a tool researcher Ichiro Tsuchida.

　During the war, Mr. Tsuchida took care of the chisel that had been evacuated to a villa in Kamakura. The Edo bear's chisel following the fate of a strange thing gradually gained a place of rest.

Chisel of Edo bear