Oigen Cast-Iron from Japan: Modern Cookware and the Revival of Handcasting
By Nancy Singleton Hachisu
OTHER THAN AN UNGAINLY sukiyaki pan that we rarely use, until not long ago the only cast-iron cookware in my Japanese farmhouse kitchen was two vintage skillets I bought at a San Francisco Bay Area flea market 35 years ago. And until I visited Oigen Iron Works in Iwate prefecture, on the main island of Honshu, I had no idea t…