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Oigen Cast-Iron from Japan: Modern Cookware and the Revival of Handcasting
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Oigen Cast-Iron from Japan: Modern Cookware and the Revival of Handcasting

By Nancy Singleton Hachisu

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May 16, 2016
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Photographs by Yoko Nakamura

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…

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