Miki in Hyogo Prefecture is a town of knives blacksmithing since the Edo period. Today, the production is almost mechanized, and the old-fashioned handmade sawsmith master craftsman, Tetsunosuke Miyano (1901), is here.

It is said that this person is the only person who can train the saw with Japanese steel made from Japanese iron made from ancient Japanese steel. Mr. Miyano has three sons, each of whom is independent and has a good family business. It is a heartwarming family as tool blacksmiths nationwide lose their successors and disappear after being chased by power tools.

Last spring, when I visited a plane blacksmith master craftsman, Shigemichi Kusakabe (1905), the fourth generation, in Aizu, his only son chose another job and died suddenly to his son's wife, who was taking care of his surroundings. He died, and his willingness to continue working was extinct, and he was empty in the corner of a dim room.

Even so, the Miyano-san family, who was preparing for filming the materials at the Carpenter Tools Museum, was wonderful. The father, set up in the horizontal seat beside the furnace, the three-prepared sons, and the uniform costume, a cheerful hammering sound, played a rhythm.