Echizen Hideo-saku Single-edged Kitchen Knife 5.5 sun (approx. 16.5 cm) Stainless Steel Deba Knife Shirotenmoku Handle Cooking Knife Sashimi Knife Japanese Cuisine Japanese Knife New, Unused Kitaoka Hamono Seisakusho Traditional Craftsman Hideo Kitaoka (Suketsugi/Echizen Hideo-saku) 【Founded】 1868 (Meiji 1st Year) Currently 3rd Generation 【Business】 Manufacturing of various forged knives 【History】 1966: Engaged in the manufacture of forged knives 2004: Certified as a Traditional Craftsman 2015: Received the iF Design Award (Germany) 2017: Received the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award 2020: Received the Municipal Merit Award 2020: Received the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Silver Rays, in the Autumn Conferment 【Media】 ・Fukui Shimbun: Hokuriku Monozukuri Renaissance ・Fukui Shimbun: Washoku Fukui-iro Kataba Wa-bocho (Single-edged Japanese Knives) ・TV Tokyo: Sekai! Nippon Ikitai Hito Oendan (I Want to Go to Japan!) ・Weekly Magazine "Sunday Mainichi" ・TV Tokyo: Ike no Mizu Zenbu Nuku (Drain All the Water from the Pond) ・Nihon Keizai Shimbun: Kataba Wa-bocho (Single-edged Japanese Knives) He is a blacksmith who consistently manufactures knives as gifts for hometown tax payments in Fukui Prefecture, knives for the Fukui Central Fish Market, knives for Michelin-starred traditional restaurants, special cutters for genuine leather products, special cutters for oboro kombu (shredded kelp), and other custom orders for various purposes, and he graces the covers of various pamphlets. Loved both domestically and internationally. Major Clients [Domestic: OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) Products] Aoi Masaaki Ichinori Kanetsune Ginza Kikufuji Kurosaki Yu Sawazukazu MARUYOSHI Miura Hamono Mizukami Sensuke Hamono Major Clients [Overseas: Sales] Germany Spain Netherlands United Kingdom Finland China South Korea Poland Indonesia Canada United States of America #TakefuKnifeVillage #TAKEFUKNIFEVILLAGE #EchizenUchihamono (Echizen Forged Knives) #TraditionalCrafts #SashimiKnife #JapaneseCuisine #Washoku (Japanese Food) #Fish #Takefu Special Steel