Saturday, October 25, 2008

Real MATAGI Knife Matagi Nagasa





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MATAGI NAGASA Knife 210mm Blade Fukuro Nagasa Handle with Wild Akita Japanese Cedar wood cover.



MATAGI is groups of superman of hunters in Japan for 600years of their history.
They hunt bear, rabbit, dear, boar, and etc, even they do it without gun.
MATAGI NAGASA is a reliable knife which they carry it anywhere they go in mountains.
They say as long as we have MATAGI NAGASA Knife, we can survive wherever we go.
The handle is forged steel with a hollow in the middle.
It can put a wood rod into the hollow hole, and put a pin in the side of a small hole, then it can use it for a spear.
It was proved to hunt bear, dear, and boar with the spear.
Of course, it is for taking a part bear, dear, and boar with just the knife.
It can be Haken to climb up mountain.
The blade of the knife is made of Yasuki Hagane which is the same steel of Japanese sword.
Yasuki Hagane is controlled by Hitachi Metal Co. after World War II, but MATAGI NAGASA knife is used old stock from before WWII.
It is totally different steel from after WWII.
No one else can get it commercially now, unless one melts down steel products before WWII for recycle.
It is very precious value steel.
The wood cover is made for put on waist with strong strings.
The wood is made out of Akita Wild Japanese Cedar that is one of highest quality Japanese cedar.
Wild Japanese Cedar will not get in several years, because it will be prohibited to cut down wild one.
The wood cover is decollated with pretty cherry skins.
The back of wood cover can use it for cutting board.
The Japanese Cedar also has antibacterial effect.
The blacksmith, Mr. Nishine is the forth generations of taking over the works to make MATAGI NAGASA Knife.


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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Ikkanshi Tadatuna Japanese Chef Knives 240mm



Finally, I recieved Ikkanshi Tadatuna Japanese chef knives from Japan.
I just update the first one on my website.
It is 240mm White Steel Wa Gyuto.
It is very thin blade compareing with the others brand.
Thin blade is harder to make but the performance of the knife is higher.


Here is more Ikkanshi knives coming up
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Japanese Cooking Utensil Pull-Out Can (Nuki Kan)


There is so many of cool cooking utensils in Japan.
I have been impressed so many times by those Japanese cooking utensils, when I worked in Japanese restaurant.
This one was the first and one of most impressed cooking utensil for me.
It is a simple but it works well.
It looks like a square stainless steel can, but it has double layered and outside layer is just regular can, but the inner layer can pull out like the second picture, so we can use it for liquid going to be harder later on like jelly.



Here is more cooking utensils (most likely Japanese chef knives)

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Ikkanshi Tadatuna Japanese Chef Knives


They are Ikkanshi Tadatuna chef knives!
I will get Ikkanshi Tadatsuna Chef Knives soon.
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Awataguchi Ikkanshi Tadatsuna Japanese Sword

I just found Ikkanshi Tadatsuna Japanese Sword picture
on the website right below.
Please scroll down the page, and then you can see the picture of the sword.
It has super clear beautiful ripple line on the blade, and their swords were very famous about wonderful metal-carving.

http://www.tsuruginoya.com/mn1_3/f00019.html

I will get Ikkanshi Tadatsuna Japanese Chef Knives soon.
Please check it out my website below;


http://www.aframestokyo.com/index.html

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

High End Japanese Knife Ikkanshi Tadatsuna

Very Fortunatly, we will have Ikkanshi Tadatsuna knives.
I guess no one else carry Ikkanshi Tadatsuna knives in U.S. market.

The original Japanese Iron Chef, Rokusaburo Michiba loves to use Ikkanshi Tadatsuna knives.

They have been inherited from 4 hundreds years of Japanese Sword making skills from Awataguchi Ikkanshi Tadatsuna who is very famous Japanese sword maker 4 hundreds years ago.


I will get Ikkanshi Tadatsuna Japanese Chef Knives soon.
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Sakimaru Takohiki Knife by Monzaburo


After waiting for a couple months, I have finally got Custom made MONZABURO Sakimaru Takohiki 330mm Knife.
It is so beautiful on the blade and handle.
The back side of blade has wonderful ripple line, and the front side of blade has also nice Hongasumi line all the way tip of blade edge to the end of the blade edge.

There is more pictures right below:



http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/20709232

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