Knife Blog

We are honored to have received OMOTENASHI Selection 2022 Award run by Omotenashi Nippon, whose partners are ANA(All Nippon Airways Trading), Japan Post Trading and other well-known companies.

Two of the awarded products are Sakai knives we sold through Makuake, a crowdfunding web platform, and achieved over 500% toward our objective. The other is a Honyaki knife with Mt. Fuji pattern. For more information, please click here.

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These are Sakai knives. One is a kitchen knife with Mt. Fuji pattern with excellent design and the others are Santoku and Paring kitchen knives that are designed for the user in mind.

The Mt. Fuji-patterned kitchen knife is a Honyaki kitchen knife made in the same process as Japanese swords. Both the blade and the sheath are decorated with Mt. Fuji pattern, a World Heritage. Both the blacksmith and the bladesmith the top class craftsmen in Sakai. Sakai kitchen knives are sharp and can cut without destroying the cells of the food, thus bringing out the natural flavors and tastes of the food to the fullest.

Santoku and Paring knives are also made in Sakai. Generally speaking, sharp knives are hard and difficult to sharpen, while easy-to-sharpen knives are soft and do not maintain their sharpness. These knives have achieved both sharpness and ease of sharpening, which are difficult to achieve. Because they are easy to sharpen, they can be used over and over again until the knives become smaller, making them an environmentally friendly product. These knives are made by craftsmen who have been waiting a year to make the blade. The handle is made of Aomori cypress(hiba), an antibacterial material used for cutting boards, and the collar ring is decorated with artificial marble often used in familiar kitchens. These knives are manufactured for general users in Sakai, Osaka, a city that mainly produces kitchen knives for professionals, using the same techniques.
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We will continue to strive to create products that will be loved by users.

【About Omotenashi Selection】

The Omotenashi Selection is an award established in 2015 with the aim of discovering and promoting excellent Japanese products and services with a spirit of hospitality to the world.

Omotenashi Selection is managed by more than 20 private companies, and the products and services are judged in person by foreign experts living in Japan.

The Selection is based on the criteria of “OMOTENASHI” and “GLOBAL,” and evaluates the products based on their particular techniques born out of consideration for the people who use them, and the activities of originality and ingenuity that have been improved for the modern age while inheriting traditions.

The Omotenashi Selection Award is given to products and services that are recognized as being “full of the unique charm of Japan that we want to share with the world.