"The History of the Kettle Maker" - Kama-shi no Yuisho

...It is said that the name "okamashi" was also used by the Ashikaga Shogunate, but in Chikuzen Ashiya and Shimotsuke Tenmei, which are said to be the birthplace of kettles, they were called "kanaya" and made pots, kettles, temple bells, and hanging lanterns, but it is thought that it was after the Azuchi-Momoyama period, when Kyoto kettles flourished, that kettles carpenters generally came to be called "kama-shi". In "Kama-shi no Yui" written by Nishimura Michiji in 1700 (Genroku 13), it is written, "1. In the Jōō period, Nishimura Michihito and Nagoshi Yoshimasa were the No. 1 kettle maker in Kyoto. Michihito was the kettle maker for Lord Nobunaga...(omitted)...Yoshimasa was the ancestor of Jōmi Yaemon, the kettle maker for Lord Ieyasu." ...

*Some of the terminology explained in relation to "The Origins of the Kettle Maker" is listed below.

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…足利将軍家においては御釜師の名称も用いられたといわれるが，釜の発祥地とされる筑前芦屋や下野（しもつけ）天命では金屋を称しており，いわゆる鍋･釜や梵鐘，釣灯籠なども製作していたが，金屋大工が一般に釜師と称されるようになったのは，京釜が隆盛した安土桃山時代以後のことと考えられる。1700年(元禄13)に西村道冶が著した《釜師之由緒》には〈一，紹鷗時代京都天下一西村道仁，名越善正也。道仁は信長公御釜師…(略)…善正は家康公の御釜師浄味弥右衛門の元祖也〉とある。…

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