[furnace] The 鑪 is the traditional Japanese furnace used for smelting iron and steel. The word later also came to mean the entire building housing the furnace. The steel, or 玉鋼, used in the forging of Japanese swords (日本刀, commonly known as 刀) by contemporary Japanese forge masters like Kihara Akira and Gassan Sadatoshi is sti...
Smith's smelter for making sword steel
Smith's smelter for making sword steel.