The Takahashi Smithery, Shimane Blacksmith

This area is known as Kajiya-mawari (area of smiths). In the vicinity is the former site where nodatara (a method of smithing employed since ancient times up to the early modern period) was once practiced and where kera (iron lumps formed at the bottom during nodatara smithing) have been unearthed. 150 years ago, the first smith here returned here after his training and established his own smithery. It was inherited by the great-grandfather of the former head of the family and fourth-generation Takahashi Tsutomu, whose father was the third-generation smith of the family.