Understanding knifesharpening

A good knife is a thing of beauty. Its beauty is not only about its masterfully crafted design.
An untarnished gleam that comes from thorough cleaning makes a knife beautiful.

Sharpen, polish, rinse and wipe.
The important thing is how we value each process. The professional knife sharpener doing his work,
the sound coming from the whetstone, the tremor of water, and the gleam of the knife’s tip;
we hope customers will appreciate the quintessence of knife sharpening from all of the above.

Sharpness isVisible

The sharpness of a knife can be imagined from its beauty.
However, its virtue is in the incision made to a food ingredient.

The flat surface which has a look of stillness speaks for the
superiority of the knife’s sharpness.

Deliciousness StartsWith Beauty

The word delicious in Japanese starts with the character “beauty.”
Therefore, we can see how important a beautiful knife is.

To carry on Japan’s traditional knife culture, hand it down to posterity
and to evolve it; that is what delicious means to Shinto.