There is a Seibei Taniguchi 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 Mr. Kagi to find out when it was.

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

　The owner, Seibe (real name, Thailand-dori, Taisho 3rd grader), also made saws until he was in his forties, 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. Until the end of the war, several blacksmiths were left, with the Taniguchi family at the end, and the name of the blacksmith town disappeared from Fushimi. 　The Taniguchi family not only makes tools for generations, but also sells them widely to various countries, and along with the Nakaya family, the history of that area remains in the letters "Sohonke Fujiwara" remaining in Japanese shop curtain as the core of Fushimi Kaji.

　The saw in question was obtained from a carpenter from Kagoshima, and it was said that our family had a business with Satsuma, and during the Meiji Restoration, there were many Satsuma priests coming and going, and Saigo Takamori also stayed . This saw may be a connection from that time. On the way home, I received the last old saw left in our house.