The Tangetsu Ironware Collection

"This moon is proof of my training," say the blacksmiths of Kajikobo Hiromitsu, a reference to the telltale signs of hammering techniques honed over years of practice - blows that mark the surface like craters on the moon.

Perhaps because of their location in Shimane, a region steeped in age-old traditions, each piece they craft is worked using tatara, a type of furnace dating to Japan's Edo period, and finished with nothing more than a hammer and tongs.