｜Length : 24min. ｜Year : 2003 ｜

Munemichi Myochin is the 52nd generation master of the Myochin family, which had enjoyed great status since the 8th century because of its armour-making skills. Today he is the only person in Japan who specializes in making iron tongs. His tongs are not only used for tea ceremony but also for a wind chime that tinkles beautifully in the breeze. Tongs do not produce clear sound if there is even one millimetre of difference both in length and thickness.

｜Length : 24min. ｜Year : 2003 ｜

The tuna-filleting knife to carve large tuna with the weight of 200 kilograms, used in the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, has a blade length of 1.5 meters. Masaji Shimizu, a craftsman who lives in Takefu in Fkui prefecture, makes this kind of giant knives. The giant knife looks like a huge Japanese sword, but actually it has a tremendous flexibility. It has to curve flexibly along the spine of huge tuna and straighten again, according to the force applied to it.

｜Length : 24min. ｜Year : 2003 ｜

The Ohkawara brothers are master blacksmiths. They make hand-made scissors, using their skill of the comprehensive forging method originated as a technique to create Japanese swords handed down through generations. In their scissor-making method, a piece of iron is heated red-hot and hammered into shape to form the handle and the blade at a time. They read each other's breathing, measuring everything by sight, and hammer with perfect timing, as they know when and how to hammer the metal through long experience.

｜Length : 24min. ｜Year : 2003 ｜

Today, there are only a small number of craftsmen who make fountain pens all hand-made. Uehara, aged 82, has been engaged in this work since he was 19. He makes special fountain pens that fit perfectly in the hand of each customer, taking each person's particular handwriting into consideration. His skill of adjusting the pen point, using a loupe, is remarkable, because a difference of 0.01 millimeters does affect the smoothness of writing.

｜Length : 24min. ｜Year : 2003 ｜

The skill of Japanese traditional style of cut-glass 'Edo-Kiriko', originated in Edo period, has been handed down to some craftsmen today. Kobayashi, aged 79, is one of them, having dedicated his energy to this work for over fifty years. He has a super skill to give a dazzling brightness to his creation by controlling the way of cutting. His work has a warm, refined, but sharp feel, that is a brilliant glass art with reflected light, which attracts many craftsmen in this field.