Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
The Tokyo Chisel Register
An English research corpus documenting the lineages, marks, guilds, and surviving record of Edo and Tokyo chisel smiths.
Why it surfacedThis unusually focused register maps maker’s marks to individual smiths, places, dates, and lineages, drawing on Japanese primary and secondary sources, trade directories, museum research, and translated shop essays. Its 145 links and substantial sections on misattributions, guilds, vanished forges, and living collections make it feel less like a landing page than an attempt to preserve a disappearing craft record.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.