Nigara White 1 Honyaki Kirisuke Yanagiba 300mm with Octagonal Corian HandleKnives and Stones is proud to bring you Nigara Knife, a boutique knife house based in the beautiful north eastern prefecture of Aomori. With over 350 years of knife making history, and their remote location, Nigara has developed some incredibly unique forging techniques and designs. Their Damascus pattern is one of the most sophisticated patterns that I have seen from Japan makers, and it is called Anmon, which translate to "dark figure". We will

263 mm  Blade Height at Heel

Yet it is a stainless steel because of the added Chromium

CNC milled parts providing very high level of manufacturing precision: less movement

Weighing 176g with a spine measuring 2

abrasion resistance

sharpened by Morihiro

White #2 steel offers a sharp cutting edge and is notably easy to sharpen

succeed by Kichizo Hirano in 1891

this knife features a VG10 core with stainless damascus cladding and a tsuchime surface texture

supporting controlled chopping motions typical of the santoku profile

210 mm 240 mm Weight 171 g 196 g Total Length 347 mm 385 mm Tip to Heel Length 203 mm 233 mm Blade Height at Heel 52 mm 54

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