Nuka

Nuka lay in the northern mountains of Bingo, a district of forested slopes and valleys close to the watersheds of western Honshu. Around Konuka, ironmaking was a part of rural life: farmers worked at tatara furnaces and washed iron sand from the hills, often as a winter occupation. In the Edo period, an ironworks serving the Hiroshima domain operated here, drawing on the skills and resources of these mountain communities.