Samurai once lived in Buddhist temples here, Nagashima explained, working as security guards called boukan.
Yoshiyuki Nagashima, named an "Outstanding Skilled Worker" last year, makes grinders for industrial machine tools.
"My young age helped me, " says Nagashima, a handsome man with a serious demeanor.
Following Nagashima into the labyrinth of teahouses, temples and restored samurai houses, I felt like Alice slipping into the rabbit hole.
Nagashima's company makes the entire grinding mechanism, and the scorings on the plate are done by hand using a chisel-like tool called a kisage.
On my first morning in Kanazawa, I made a beeline for the neighbourhood of Higashi Chaya and met Kiyoe Nagashima, a 6th-generation resident and Kanazawa Excursions guide.
"You have no choice but to rely on human hands, " says Nagashima, who set up his own company in 1973 after training at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
But Akihisa Nagashima, one of his advisers, says he does not expect Mr Noda, the son of an officer, to let his own views undermine Japan's national interest.
Matsui and his former manager with the Yomiuri Giants, Shigeo Nagashima, received the award, which is bestowed on those who have made significant achievements in their careers and are beloved by the public.
Especially when the upstart is someone like Kazuyoshi Nagashima, a windsurfing, snowboarding 32-year-old former TV reporter who campaigned for mayor of the Kanagawa prefecture city of Zushi on a populist platform to, among other things, cut the entertainment budget for the mayor's office to zero.
Mr Nagashima admits there is little chance the party would go as far as its more hawkish antagonist, the Liberal Democratic Party, which is mulling a manifesto pledge to change article nine of Japan's constitution, drafted by the American victors in 1947, which forever renounces war as a way of settling disputes.
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