Seiun wo Kakeru

Oh, cold cold cold.

If you look up at the sky, the grey sky covers you more and more.

The sunlight never pours, and the white mixes with the flickering. It was snowing.

Tania wears her jacket to Age, who reluctantly looks out of the sky from the front door.

It's the fur coat you used to make for me.

processed fox skin. It gives a fluffy touch and a definite plush

"It's a lot colder today than usual"

"Be careful not to chill in the blacksmith"

"That's okay. Because it keeps the fire on fire."

"Yes, I was."

"Mr. Tania, don't let your body cool down by lighting the fire properly."

"It's okay. It was this Cairo that Age made for me, and I'll warm it up properly."

Cairo's raw material is iron powder.

He was making Cairo with iron scraps coming out during the forge in cotton bags.

"Well, I'll be there"

"I'm going to go kiss you... you're not used to doing it every day. It's embarrassing."

"That embarrassing look is good again."

"Age."

"Welcome."

With a pitiful voice, Tania kissed her naughty with a reddish look like hot iron.

The road to a less crowded blacksmith is snowy.

I hear crisp and creepy sounds every time I step on it, but my heart doesn't really dance because I'm an adult, not a child?

Age rubbed her hands tightly as she moved from her home to the blacksmith and warmed them with exhaling breath.

The wind blowing was cold, but my heart was warm.

It's been two weeks since the Toyota Festival - I don't want to recall anything about the aftermath of the Toyota Festival. Just one word, it was hard for the book.

If you think where you were, today will be one of the most important days for the blacksmith.

Age on the blacksmith opens the wooden door, strikes the usual Kashiwaki hand (with a wrinkle) and goes inside after prayer.

Winter solstice varies from year to year, but roughly around December 20th.

The whole two weeks are now New Year's Eve, and it's the day to start blacksmithing.

It's a very important event, so I can't worry about firewood and charcoal all day.

Don't hesitate to light the fire.

We will sweep the soil-stamped and solidified floor, called the Sanwa soil "Taki".

Various things descend on the blacksmith floor.

When it is ash or sand iron, or when iron oxides and trace amounts of "slugs" are mixed out when striking iron, the colour of the soil gradually becomes black and glossy.

When Age was still in Japan, there was something at home that farmers wanted this soil for.

The soil, which contains various substances, appears to be a micronutrient and convenient for growing food.

Together with my father, I laughed that something unexpected was something to be treasured.

That's what I now use for the fields behind my home, so life doesn't know what's going to happen.

There were signs of people around the time there was a paragraph on cleaning as well.

The small figure around belongs to the disciple Pietro.

"Good morning!

"Oh, good morning"

"Excuse me, I need you to get ready"

"It's good, because it's a habit. I think I told you before, thank you very much."

"Yes!"

Even Pietro was going to teach me how the blacksmith works.

Though cultures are different from where they were, I thought if we were to teach moves, we should teach them their spirituality as well.

It's not just about psychology, but it's also about adage and thinking, because there must be a lot of things that live as part of technology.

Age also decided to take an apprentice from the beginning, but every day Age brushed her arms herself in the first place.

And the days of teaching also give me a new awareness of myself.

"Um."

"Hmm? What's up?"

"What god should I pray to when I say I pray?

"Oh...... right"

Do I have to explain it from there?

There are several divisive gods that blacksmiths believe in.

The gods who believe in the wild god Kojin, the golden house god Kana Yakogami, and the Inari god Ai Shin are different depending on the region, and some worship local shrines.

In Age's house, the golden house God was believed.

His first name was Kim Yamahiko Tensei. "Kayama only one thing" is the need for blacksmith tools, and "Fuigo" is considered to have been brought.

The headquarters will be in Shimane Prefecture. According to the inheritance, when it stopped at the edge of a large laurel tree, it was caught.

Ask the Divine Lord to worship you during the event known as the Festival of the Festival of the Festival of the Festival.

"Look, it's very hard to say, so listen carefully."

"Yes."

"The name of the god of blacksmiths is Kim Yamahiko Tensei,"

"Kana Yamako, Amen... One, Miko and"

"Right. If there is no god to pray for, pray for this god. Hope you get something good, don't get caught in a fire."

"Parents, I think I'm gonna bite your tongue."

"Let's say it quickly"

"Kanaya mabiko meh -!!... hita. Can the parents say that?

"Okay, then shut up and pray"

"Shit! Parents say it too!

There are many fires, because blacksmiths are a place where fire is always handled.

No matter how attentive you are to extinguishing the fire, at one point the firepowder can flame like a whim.

That's why I ask God for fire protection.

Wait for it to end as you rejoice as an educator in the appearance of Pietro, who offers serious prayers.

"Done."

"Okay. Then we start hitting!

"Yes!"

"Strike the charcoal first, as usual"

Pietro breaks the charcoal into small pieces.

You break charcoal in one hand, and you make a chip of charcoal about two centimeters at a time.

Pine or chestnut charcoal is good if you can.

Because it is easy to adjust the temperature with X. It is easy to warm at low temperatures on purpose.

Originally, there was a build-up of chips of charcoal, but it was customary to keep a certain amount of it at all times.

Besides, this motion is very similar to the movement of the hammer.

The motion of swinging objects down where they are aimed, and the motion of capturing them with the core, also helps to swing the hammer.

Age is a little proud to have been praised for her muscles by her rarely complimented father.

From what I've seen, Pietro isn't bad. But it's not exceptionally fast.

It depends on future improvements.

"Parents, we've got charcoal ready."

"Okay, then I'll light the fire."

"Yes!"

"Oh, wait a minute"

"Yes?"

"I don't use firecrackers, like I always do."

"Yeah? Then how do you light the fire?"

Stop Pietro, including preparing the firestone.

All this day of the year is a special way to light a fire.

When I heard he wouldn't use firestone, Pietro looked so strange.

"Hit the iron."

"Ha, ha. You always hit hot iron."

"You don't, you hit this cold iron"

It was a thin iron stick that let me hold it in my hand.

Pietro looked more and more strange when he put it on the gold bed Kanako and explained that it was to be struck with hammers.

Well, it's hard to understand, even if you say so.

Pietro gave a rare and hurried look when he appeared blatantly on his face.

I'm a little frightened.

If you're a gang-tempered parent, your fists are flying at this point, but Age wasn't going to do Spartan education.

If they both listen to me say the same thing, I'd like to give them candy and whip candy anyway.

"Iron has a strange nature"

"Yes."

"The same goes for trying to be homogeneous in nature if you tap it, or having a magnetic force, but another thing, when you apply an external force such as bending or tapping iron, you have heat on the iron itself"

If you are twisting and bending to fold a wire or something, it gets hot and you can't hold it in your hand.

The phenomenon is caused by hammering.

It is the blacksmiths that have been around since ancient times that heat up and thereby ignite the fire.

"Well, isn't that understandable? As you'll see."

"Yes."

Beat the iron bars placed on the iron floor with hammers.

Gradually, heat is transmitted to the hand holding it down. It would be quite hot where I'm tapping directly.

When I tangled the dried straw, I eventually wondered if there was any skunk and smoke, and the fire arrived.

"True!

"You doubted me for saying all this."

"No, I believed in my parents. You can't lie to me."

"Look, I'm gonna make a fire out of this straw."

He laughs at Pietro, and he says he's in good shape.

The atmosphere is so bright, I can't really get mad.

I think you're the one with the gainful personality.

It's a rare type for craftsmen.

Transfer the fire from straw to dry wooden skins and gradually increase it to charcoal.

When I moved the water wheel and sent the wind, the coal in the place where the iron was heated - Tuesday soil "about" became red.