Our CRAFTSMEN
Un couteau de cuisine japonais est fabriqué en plusieurs procédés. Chaque processus nécessite un artisan dédié pour le réaliser. Si une étape n'est pas bien faite, cela affectera l'expérience globale. Apprenons-en plus sur la compréhension et la connaissance des couteaux de nos artisans.
Yoshinobu Yamawaki
41 ans d'experience dans l'industrie.
“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 ans d'experience dans l'industrie.
“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 ans d'experience dans l'industrie.
“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 ans d'experience dans l'industrie.
“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 ans d'experience dans l'industrie.
“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 ans d'experience dans l'industrie.
“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 ans d'experience dans l'industrie.
“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.”
