Knife Blog

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We would like to attract your attention about our branded knives (Ittosai Kotetsu & Sakai Ichimonji Ippei) because we have seen resale of them in some auction platforms for a few years.

Our company policy is that we don’t disclose our artisans’ names of our branded knives (Ittosai Kotetsu & Sakai Ichimonji Ippei) with a very few excptions. Our official distributors are as follows.

【As of February in 2021, Honorifics omitted】
Ittosai Kotetsu
– Kimura Knife (Hokkaido)
– Union Commerce (Tokyo)
– Kanetaka Hamonorouho (Kyoto)
– Kireajinoie (Hyogo)
– IRON CLAD / Knife Gallery (Hiroshima)
– Shimizu knife store (Yamaguchi)
– Shuang Zhong / 双中鐵店 (Taiwan)
– He Xin Hang / 和欣行刀具 (Taiwan)
– Xing Long / 興隆刀剪行 (Taiwan)
– UON (USA)

Sakai Ichimonji Ippei
– Kireajinoie (Hyogo)
– Nakamuraya (Hiroshima)
– Shuang Zhong / 双中鐵店 (Taiwan)
– He Xin Hang / 和欣行刀具 (Taiwan)
– Xing Long / 興隆刀剪行 (Taiwan)

We can see that our artisans are disclosed in some auction websites, but we don’t disclose our artisans’ names as our company policy as I have written above. Please be understanding that we don’t take any responsibilities for our branded knives you have bought or gotten in other stores than the ones above or all auction websites for whatever reason.

My company has keep making as much effort as possible to avoid spreading dishonest resales.

We will keep making good knives meeting customers’ needs, so we would appreciate it if you could have your continued patronage with us.