On the opposite side of Takashi Tanaka Metal, who posted on the blog last time, there is Sasaki Shoten, famous for "Tsuya Fukin".
What I would like to introduce most at this shop is "Sasaki no Tsuya Fukin".
More than 140 years have passed since production and sales began in 1868.
It is a yellow towel cloth with a handkerchief size, but it looks like a cloth, but it is a special "excellent thing".
Tans tokonoma Difference Shelf Desk Koto Shamisen Musical Instruments Only by lightly wiping items such as ebony karaki work creates a surprising glow and feels comfortable.
If you wipe the machine made of cast and copper iron with "Tsuya Fukin", it will be beautiful because of the anti-rust effect.
There is no need to wash this cloth because it loses its potency when washed.
"Tsuyafukin" that uses nature instead of the power of chemistry ¥1050 per sheet -
A female adult of Ibotaro kaigaramshi parasitic on trees such as Ibotanoki and Ratmochi lays thousands of eggs while making dark brown round shells about 1 cm. Male larvae hatched around June secrete white wax in the twigs around July and grow and wrap the twigs in a lump of white wax. It becomes an adult around September, but Ibota wax collected and refined this white wax is used for various industrial and medicinal purposes. 'Tsuyafukin' is made by soaking it in a cloth.
It's an expensive pipe.
It reminds me of the scenes that appear in old Western paintings.
If you look at such a lot of pipes even if you don't smoke, you have each characteristic and interesting.
I remember the scene where my father had added a pipe even though he did not like cigarettes specially.
Sasaki Shoten
1-8-17, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
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