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

　The old man lying down on the bed was quietly greeted by our greeting. I'm suffering from lung cancer and have no voice for surgery. When Kagi held the blade with a cloth and put it out in front of his fearful face, he quietly lifted his hands. For a moment we were "ha" It is a large plane with a width of 5 inches. It's heavy. The cutting edge is facing the chest. But the knives held over the hands of the Lord did not tremble. And he was quietly occupied. And he wrote, "Ishido's plane is definitely worth it." A month later, I received the news of death.

　After all, in June of this year, he visited a master craftsman, Shigenobu Nagamine (1897), in Aizu, but died the following month. And finally, two chisels, which had not been engraved, arrived in his work. We lost two masters one after another. Time cannot wait for us.