Our CRAFTSMEN
Japanische Küchenmesser durchlaufen mehrere Prozesse. Jeder einzelne Prozess benötigt einen engagierten Handwerker zur Vervollständigung eines Messers. Wenn ein Schritt nicht richtig gemacht wird, wirkt sich das auf das Gesamterlebnis aus. Erfahren Sie mehr über das Verständnis und Wissen unserer Handwerker über Messer.
Yoshinobu Yamawaki
41 Jahre Erfahrung in der Branche
“Just recently I felt the greatest sense of accomplishment. We have built a factory, and the young people from within are now very talented sharpeners in Sakai. That is my greatest joy since I entered this industry.”
Takao Asamura
53 Jahre in der Branche
“A design that suits a knife is not immediately apparent. It is a result of trial and error. The answer for a good design is Japanese Haiga. Haiga involves composing a short poem and adding simple illustrations alongside it. I think it is best to engrave these kinds of simple illustrations on a knife.”
Yasunori Hasegawa
26 Jahre Erfahrung in der Branche
“I try to arrange something every day and make an effort to make it beautiful. So there is no "perfection." I feel a sense of accomplishment when a client is pleased with my work, but it is still far from perfect. My works are still about 70% completed.”
Satoshi Nakagawa
17 Jahre Erfahrung in der Branche
“As with anything, I have to keep up with new steel materials, new trends, and so on. Doing something new motivates me. 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.”
Akihito Fujiwara
10 Jahre Erfahrung in der Branche
“When I started making knives, I had no idea what I was doing. So despite making kitchen knives, I was ignoring the customer’s experience. But after I started using the knives I made myself, I began to think of things to improve. It would be better to grind them a little more like this or that, as these parts hit the hands, they would feel better if they were a little more rounded, etc. So, I'm constantly making improvements.”
Nobuhisa Yaginuma
37-year experience in the industry.
The perfect manufacturing process ensures that the knives are free of any imperfections, are easy to sharpen, and can be used for more than a year after sharpening. Yaginuma’s organization researches ancient excellent and beautiful steel in electric furnaces and wholesale iron furnaces. Their craft is a hand-forged product of the steel made from that research and Japanese iron such as tama-hagane.
Masaya Shimizu
7 Jahre Erfahrung in der Branche
“As my skills gradually increase, I am entrusted with expensive knives and other items. The greatest sense of accomplishment comes when I complete those knives.”
Hirotoshi Tsujibayashi
13 Jahre Erfahrung in der Branche
“When a customer comes back saying "I have tried knives from many places, but this knife is the best. So, I came back to buy more", I feel the happiest.”
