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- Yoshinori Shimatani hand-hammers brass to create standing bells.
- He works at Shimatani Syouryu Studio in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture.
- Shimatani, 53, shapes unfinished brass until it resonates like his father’s and grandfather’s bells.
- Only eight master craftsmen across Japan still hand-make these Buddhist ritual bells.
- Takaoka is renowned for a 400-year legacy of metalworking.