Kirameki White Steel #2 Mizuyaki Honyaki Sakimaru Yanagiba Knife – Made by Nakagawa

<h3><span>Sashimi Knife with Saka-choji</span><span>pattern by Satoshi</span>Nakagawa</h3><p>This is a Hon-yaki kitchen knife made of White Steel #2, a standard high carbon steel for knife.</p><p>Hon-yaki is the highest peak of Japanese kitchen knives forged only with high carbon steel, and is characterized by sharpness and good edge retention.</p><p>This knife is made by a leading blacksmith in Sakai, Mr. Satoshi Nakagawa, who has incorporated theSaka-choji pattern seen in Bizen Yoshioka Ichimonji's samurai sword into the Mizuhon-yaki process.</p><p>Sakai Ichimonji Mitsuhide is the only company in western Japan that has this item.</p>