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  • Three-part composition showing craftsman's hands impressing arare hailstone pattern dots into sand-clay mold for tetsubin; traditional Nanbu tekki cast-iron kettle with characteristic raised-dot pattern and arched handle with steam rising from spout; clear softened water being poured from tetsubin into ceramic teacup with visible steam, illustrating 400-year-old Iwate craft that transforms ordinary tap water through bare cast iron chemistry, chlorine removal, and trace ferrous iron dissolution into mellower-tasting heirloom object.
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    Nanbu Tekki: The Cast Iron That Changes the Water

    Nanbu Tekki: The Cast Iron That Changes the Water Boil ordinary tap water in a Japanese iron kettle and it comes out tasting different — softer, rounder, cleaner. The reason is partly chemistry, partly four hundred years of a northern craft that treats a kettle as an heirloom. There is a claim that sounds like folkl...
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