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Metalwork

Cast-iron kettles, hammered copper, and tin soft enough to fold — metal raised and beaten by smiths whose forebears once armored a country.

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Casting

Why iron makes water taste round

Inside a Nambu tetsubin foundry.

Raising

One sheet, ten thousand hammer blows

Tsuiki copper raised into a seamless pot.

Tin

Metal soft enough to bend by hand

Why a tin cup chills sake — and folds to your grip.

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