. Repairmen in Edo 修理屋 .
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ikakeya 鋳掛屋 / 鋳掛け屋 / いかけや tinker, repairing metal tools, pots and pans
ikakeshi 鋳掛け師
A popular job from the Edo to the Showa period. He repaired the metal home items, which were prone to damage, getting holes and splitting of all kinds.
Every little damage was repaired carefully, till a pot could not be used any longer.
『守貞謾稿』- Illustration from Morisada Manko
The tinker walked around in Edo and the villages of Japan, calling out for his service. He carried his tools in a wooden box and also had to carry a little fuigo bellows. He had to heat the metal in a small fire and blend the hot metal over the split.
金属を「鋳て」（溶かして）「かける」から「いかけや」
source : wikidedia - Kusakabe Kinbei 日下部金兵衛
During the Meiji and then Showa period the pots and pans were made of better quality to start with and easier to buy in the stores. So the job of the tinker slowly died out.
source : Cony のブログ
Until about 1965, the roadside tinkers were still working in Osaka 大阪.
They used to call out:
いかけ、鍋釜、バケツいか〜け
ikake nabe kama baketsu ikaaaake
the tinker is here -
pots and pans, buckets for the tinker
The word ikakeya いかけ屋 in Osaka was used to describe a happy couple that went out together. Since around 1810 there were a few female tinkers working in Osaka.
今日は徳さんとこ、芝居行くンかいな。いかけ屋やなあ
There is also a famous rakugo story from Kamigata (Osaka)
いかけ屋 Ikakeya
「鋳掛屋だけによくくっつくな」「鋳掛屋は鋳掛屋どうしくっつくな」
source : shobuen2
The village children surround the tinker and try to divert him from paying attention to his job. They ask him silly questions and wait for his answer.
When he asks the kids to go away, they never do. . . .
- - - More in the Japanese WIKIPEDIA !
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There is a famous proverb
月夜に釜を抜かれる
tsukiyo ni kama o nukareru
An iron pot is stolen in a moonlight night.
In a dark night, people would be careful and watch out for thieves, but on a moonlit night . . .
to be completely taken unawares, to be taken by surprise, to be off my guard
Even in the Edo period, the metal of pots and pans was worth to be stolen.
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- - - reference - Japanese WIKIPEDIA !
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source : blog.goo.ne.jp/aboo-kai
天高く いかけやなべ底たたく音
ten takaku ikakeya nabe soko tataku oto
bright autumn sky -
the sound of the tinker hitting
the bottom of the pot
. WKD : ten takashi 天高し "high sky", "high heaven" .
clear autumn sky
- - kigo for all autumn - -
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鍋鋳掛けすてっぺんから煙草にし
nabe ikake suteppen kara tabako ni shi
a pot for the tinker -
but first he takes a smoke
from his pipe
The people of Edo observed well. The tinker had to make the fire really hot before he could start to work, so he used that time to have a smoke himself.
source : jti - tobacco-world
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