DESIGN
Kokontozai: KASHIYUKA’s Shop of Japanese Arts and Crafts /[Hammered Wok]
『カーサ ブルータス』2022年9月号より
September 8, 2022 | Design | KASHIYUKA’s Shop of Japanese Arts and Crafts | photo_Keisuke Fukamizu hair & make-up_Masako Osuga editor_Masae Wako translation_ Mika Yoshida & David G. Imber
Searching all of Japan for handcrafted items that express its heart and soul, our proprietor, KASHIYUKA, presents things that bring a bit of luxury to everyday life. This time around she visited Yokohama, in Kanagawa prefecture. It’s where she looked into a hammer-pounded wok that Chinatown chefs have overwhelmingly come to rely on.
When I learned that the culinary professionals in Yokohama’s Chinatown adore a certain iron wok handmade by local artisans I decided to visit Yamada Kōgyōsho, situated in a Yokohama industrial park. This small factory was launched in 1957.
“Iron was in short supply at that time, but you’ve got to have a proper pan to make delicious food! First, my father cut and bent the iron from the bottom of an oil drum. Later, he’d a dig round hole in the ground, place a plate of atop it, and continuously pound the sheet with a hammer until it took the shape of a wok,” says Mr. Toyoaki Yamada, the second-generation owner of the shop. He inherited the spirit of that first generation, and continues to make iron woks by machine-hammering them into shape, a technique referred to as uchidashi seihō, the “pounding method”.
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