Synopsis

A century after its establishment, the store resides within a hardware shop in Chiba Prefecture. Here, amidst pots and knives, carpentry tools and farm equipment, reside twenty thousand articles waiting to be handled. A carpenter arrives to purchase essential tools for his trade—nails and scoops among them. Farmers seek barbed wire to protect their fields from wild animals. And there are requests too, to repair cherished, old mulberry wood. What glimpses of life emerge when one focuses a camera