According to “Stove Museum” written by Mr.新穂栄蔵 (Eizou Shinpo), it has been said that, in 1880's, in Japan a passenger train made in the United States of America was furnished with a coal stove.

After that, these stoves were producuced in Japan.

It's probably those woodpattern has been made from 1945's to 1950's by Japanese.

It's the image of octopus in Japan, like this TAKO ．．．

In those days, the most steam locomotives were fueled by coals, so that the TAKO stove in the train also had used coals.

These days, we can make use of wood chips.

Would you like in your living room, in your study, as an interior decoration ?

We call the inside of（ the global ) woodpattern the“core (中子取り：なかごとり)”.

The surface of the core has been covered with 3 millimeters ( about 1/8 inch ) wax, so that I will scrape the old wax off in order to coat neatly with adhesive, paint, and so on. 

It's important for this stove to do elaborate work, for that matter, for my work.!