Stone mold casting - Ishigata Chuzo

Japanese: 石型鋳造 - いしがたちゅうぞう
Stone mold casting - Ishigata Chuzo

...There are roughly the following casting techniques for metal casting. (1) Stone mold casting This is a technique in which the object to be cast is engraved into sandstone-like stone and molten metal is poured into it. Ancient bronze swords, bronze spears, and bronze halberds were made using stone molds. Stone molds for bronze bells have been excavated from Nagoyama in Himeji City (fragments), Kamitakano in Ako City (fragments), and Higashi-Nara in Osaka Prefecture (half of a bronze bell). As many of these are old-style bronze bells, it is believed that stone molds were used in the early stages of bronze bell casting, and that clay molds came to be used in later periods. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "stone mold casting" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…鋳金の技術としては,おおむね以下の鋳造法がある。(1)石型鋳造 砂岩状の石に鋳造する器物を陰刻し,これに溶解した金属を流し込む技法で,古代の銅剣,銅矛,銅戈などが石型によって行われている。銅鐸の石鋳型が姫路市名古山(断片),赤穂市上高野(断片),大阪府東奈良(銅鐸の半面)から出土しており,これらは古い形式の銅鐸が多いことから,銅鐸の鋳造は前期は石鋳型が使用され,後代には土鋳型が使用されるようになったと推定されている。…

※「石型鋳造」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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