I'm Satoshi Nakagawa, 35 years old now. I am from Sakai City, Osaka.

Being a student for a long time, I wanted to do a big job after high school. A customer at the yakiniku restaurant, my part-time job, happened to be my teacher, Kenichi Shiraki. I met him there for the first time and he asked me to join his company. So, after graduating from high school, I joined Shiraki Hamono at the age of 18. After 16 years of training, I became independent as Nakagawa Uchihamono in April 2021.

It's crest forging of blue steel No. 2 and blue steel No. 1. We forge crests to be the most beautiful in the world. Other companies may not understand this, but we put effort into devising our own original manual process. Therefore, we are confident that our products are beautifully finished.

As with anything, I have to keep up with new steel materials, new trends, and so on. Doing something new motivates me. Also, even though it is absolutely impossible at first, when I accomplish a knife through trial and error, I get excited. I keep doing those to motivate myself.

Since it is a manual process, delivery takes a long time. Now, supply and demand do not match, so it is hard to meet short delivery times.

It's Honyaki. Even though I make 10 knives, all of them cracks. It takes about 20 minutes to proceed one forging. Then, after finishing, having the blades roughly sharpened by a bladesmith, and covering with mud, it takes a very long time per piece of work. In such situation, when I finished 10 pieces and 10 pieces cracked, it broke my heart.